Wharton Club of Northern California - Insuring Nature: Using Insurance to Promote Climate Resilience

Insuring Nature: Using Insurance to Promote Climate Resilience

This webinar is part of the Wharton Alumni Webinar Series in an effort to offer life-long learning opportunities to alumni. The webinar is provided at no cost to our club members.

INSURING NATURE: USING INSURANCE TO PROMOTE CLIMATE RESILIENCE

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Wharton Alumni Relations is excited to bring you the next faculty webinar offered to our Wharton alumni community. Registration is available EXCLUSIVELY to Wharton Club of Northern California members. Space is limited, so register today! If you are not already a member of our club, we encourage you to join the club and take advantage of this valuable benefit.

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Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020.
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Cost: No cost for WCNC Members. A link to the webinar will be sent to all registrants 24 hours prior to the webinar.

Led By:
Sarah Light, Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics

About this session:
Scholars and policymakers have argued that insurance can shape behavior in ways that mitigate climate risks, such as by providing financial incentives to property owners to safeguard their property from increasingly intense hurricanes or from the risk of sea-level rise. But natural ecosystems like coral reefs, mangroves, and forest ecosystems can themselves protect property from these increased climate risks. This presentation will explore the circumstances under which it is possible to insure nature itself in order to preserve these critical ecosystem services in the face of a changing climate.

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