The UN, Insurance and Climate Change

At the end of October         and as part of the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, the United Nations Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) released its report: The Global State of Sustainable Insurance. Frankly, I don't know what to make of it because I can't figure out how one could assess the global state of anything without at least trying to be comprehensive. This report, unfortunately, does not include the risk management community of insureds in its survey group. This leaves one with the suspicion that the report's conclusions la...