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Insuring the Uninsurable
Climate Change and Insurance
10 May 2004, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Organisers: Munich Re and Germanwatch
Venue: Munich Re building, Königinstraße 107 D-80802 Munich
Presentations (PowerPoint files)
Programme
| 9:30 am - 11:00 am | Relevant government-insurance-pool solutions - advantages and disadvantages |
| a) The German debate
regarding obligatory insurance
Thomas Loster / Ernst Rauch (Munich Re) |
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| b) Status and development
opportunities of the EU fund?
Carlo Jäger (PIK) |
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| c) The Turkish earthquake
insurance as a model for climate change insurance?
Anselm Smolka (Munich Re) Joanne Linneroth-Bayer (IIASA) |
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| d) Test the viability of a Germanwatch
proposal
Sonja Butzengeiger (HWWA) / Christoph Bals (Germanwatch) |
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| e) Comments: all | |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Climate Change Losses and Liability |
| a) Impulse Presentation
Climate Change - a future case for third party liability - What kind of regulations would be needed? - Who could pay the insurance contributions? Sonja Butzengeiger (HWWA) / Christoph Bals (Germanwatch) MJ Mace (FIELD) |
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| b) Comments by Experts
Christian Lahnstein (Munich Re) |
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| 12:30 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Emissions trading |
| a) Future perspective of emissions
trading: towards a world wide model?
Dr. Patrick Graichen (BMU) |
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| b) A world wide ET-System in the
context of Kyoto plus?
Mark Kenber (WWF) |
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| c) Can ET deliver insurance contributions?
N.N. (Munich Re) |
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| 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Insurance in Uninsured countries |
| a) Experiences from the Honduras
project
Thomas Loster / Anselm Smolka (Munich Re) |
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| b) Searching for test cases/countries
Arun Kashyap (UNDP) Reinhard Mechler (IIASA) |
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| 5:30 pm | end of the workshop |
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For further information, please
contact:
Germanwatch
Christoph Bals, phone +49 (0)228
/ 60492-17
bals@germanwatch.org
This Project is supported by the
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development