Reimagining insurance for a warming world
The problem: Insurance is supposed to protect us in hard times, but this essential safety net is fraying. As the Earth heats up, sea levels are rising and storms, floods and wildfires are getting worse in many places. That’s putting homes, businesses and entire communities at risk, contributing to higher premiums and making it harder to find insurance coverage.
What we’re doing about it: EDF is advancing solutions to keep costs down, strengthen insurance markets and ensure that households, farmers and others have the resources to recover from disasters. We’re also identifying ways the insurance industry can drive action on climate change, promote conservation of nature and help build more resilient communities.
Our work strengthening insurance as extreme weather escalates
- Explainer
4 ways climate change is impacting home insurance, putting us at risk
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Reducing risk today will fix California’s insurance crisis for future generations
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Modernizing agricultural insurance to strengthen farmers’ ability to adapt
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How FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 is reshaping flood insurance
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Driving decarbonization through insurance innovation
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A nation on the move: How climate risk is reshaping U.S. communities
Updates
Read the latest articles, blogs and press releases on insurance.
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Insurance insiders sounded the alarm. Here’s what action can look like
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Reducing risk today will fix California’s insurance crisis for future generations
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What policymakers need to know about California’s wildfire-insurance-electricity challenge
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Forever Chemicals Are Uninsurable. Here’s What That Means for Business.
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Bringing nature into the NFIP: Rewiring the National Flood Insurance Program pricing and models to leverage nature-based solutions to reduce flood risk
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Insurers’ Resilience Toolkit: A practical taxonomy of climate adaptation and resilience measures
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Insurance and climate change resources
Dig deeper into our work with these resources for researchers, policymakers, journalists and communities.
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What is happening to insurance markets?
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The state of global agricultural insurance under a changing climate
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Nature for insurance and insurance for nature (PDF)
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Driving loss reduction via state-created residual insurance markets (PDF)
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Inclusive insurance: Promoting post-flood financial resiliency for everyone
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Inclusive insurance for climate-related disasters (PDF)
Our insurance and climate change experts
We bring wide-ranging perspectives and skills to our work on insurance. Meet some of the people who make it happen.
MEDIA CONTACT
Samantha Tausendschoen
(715) 220-9930 (office)
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