18th Climate & Catastrophic Events Working Party Meeting
15.15 - 17.15
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Windsor Convention & Expo Center
The eighteenth meeting of the CCEWP took place between 15:15 hrs and 17:15 hrs on Saturday 13 October 2018 at the Windsor Convention & Expo Center in Rio de Janeiro during the XV AIDA World Congress (11-13 October 2018).
The theme of the meeting chaired by Tim Hardy (UK) was: "Touching the Void? The role of resilience, reinsurance, technology and survival strategies in the face of Climate Change and catastrophe".
Among the speakers and contributors were:
Tim Hardy (UK) - Legal Issues for Protection Gap Entities and Catastrophic Risk
Gloria Faria (Brazil) - The aftermath of the Fundao Dam disaster in Mariana and Future Mandatory Environment Insurance in Brazil
Pery Saraiva Neto (Brazil) - Individual Damage and its Mass Projection: First Party Mandatory Environmental Insurance as a Tool for Resilience
Chris Rodd (Australia) - What's Happening in the World's Second Driest Continent?
Materials presented at the meeting, included a presentation and notes by Rich Traub (US) upon Climate Change Litigation Insurance Implications.
Also a Report prepared by Maria Kavanagh (Argentina) and the MERCOSUR Group - Pollution in the Mercosur Region