KNOWING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGES ON HEALTH AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Climate change has already happened. Further climate changes will be inevitable for the decades to come, notably due to the fact that gas emissions have not been curtailed. A large number of researches have easily identified its consequences on human health, particularly the impact of extreme weather events. However, general long-term consequences are less predictable.
The society at large meets new challenges in terms of finding possibilities to adjust technical and socio-economic systems to the global climate changes and to further prevent enhanced anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
Financial sector, particularly insurance industry, are susceptible to the impacts of global climate change and thus, they need to develop proper legislation in order to adjust.