10th Meeting of Climate & Catastrophic Events Working Party
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Copenhagen, Denmark
The tenth meeting of the Working Party took place on Thursday 11 June 2015 in Copenhagen on the occasion of the Vth AIDA Europe Conference (11-12 June 2015).
The Agenda of that meeting chaired by Tim Hardy (UK) is below.
Introduction and overview: Update upon responses of insurers and governments to flood risk in the wake of major losses of recent times and Flood Re – the UK response - Tim Hardy, UK
German response to Flood risk - Prof Dr Oliver Brand, Germany
The Flood Risk - What has changed in Australia? - Chris Rodd, Australia (presentation delivered to 9th AIDA CCWP meeting in Havana)
Urban Flooding in the Mercosur region - Report by the MERCOSUR Group, co-ordinated by Dr Maria Kavanagh, Argentina
Catastrophe Bonds and Climate Risk - Report upon latest developments in the use of Cat Bonds - Paolo Rainelli, Italy
Governments being held to account for Climate Change · The Climate Case: action by the Urgenda Foundation against the Dutch Government – the first case in Europe where citizens hold a state legally responsible for inaction over Climate Change – the first of many? - Stijn Franken, Netherlands
Latin American perspective - Brazilian law upon solid waste and the application of reverse-logic for definition of liability - Gloria Faria, Brazil
A copy of the Minutes of the meeting is below. A list of registering attendees and those providing formal apologies is also listed below.