This report Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience focuses on making the case for climate adaptation, providing specific insights and recommendations in key sectors: food security, the natural environment, water, cities and urban areas, infrastructure, disaster risk management, and finance.
The Commodities and Development Report 2019: Commodity Dependence, Climate Change and the Paris Agreement report seeks to further the understanding of the interactions between climate change and the commodity sectors.
The Protecting our World Heritage, Insuring a Sustainable Future is the first-ever global insurance industry guide highlighting the increasingly important role that the industry needs to play in protecting World Heritage Sites. It explains the risks that insurers face, the role of key actors in the insurance industry, and provides practical tools and a set of basic and advanced recommendations that insurers can implement in their risk management, insurance and investment activities to protect World Heritage Sites, while reducing carbon emissions, building resilience to climate change impacts and tackling biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.
The report Unbreakable: Building the resilience of the poor in the face of natural disasters moves beyond asset and production losses and shifts its attention to how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Disasters are far greater threats to well-being than traditional estimates suggest. This approach provides a more nuanced view of natural disasters than usual reporting, and a perspective that takes fuller account of poor people’s vulnerabilities. Poor people suffer only a fraction of economic losses caused by disasters, but they bear the brunt of their consequences.
In this report, Banque de France identifies climate‑related risk as a source of financial risks, assesses their potential financial and macroeconomic impacts, and highlights the opportunities associated with financing a transition to a low-carbon economy.