Joint Meeting of Motor Insurance and Climate & Catastrophic Events Working Parties

The sixth meeting of the Working Party took place between 11:30hrs and 13:30hrs on Wednesday 18 September 2013 at the conference facility at Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney on the occasion of the AILA (Australian Insurance Law Association) National Conference which took place between 18 and 20 September 2013.

The agenda for that joint meeting with the AIDA Motor Insurance Working Party, co-chaired by Tim Hardy (UK) and Peggy Sharon (Israel) and entitled, "Climate Change, Motor Vehicles and insurance - Taming the Beast?" is below

Presentations included:

• An Overview of Motor Vehicles, Manufacture, Insurance and Climate Change - Tim Hardy (UK) , AIDA Climate Change WP Chair  
• Green Car & Insurance - Peggy Sharon (Israel), AIDA Motor Insurance WP Vice-Chair and Tim Hardy (UK) , AIDA Climate Change WP Chair, with  input from AIDA Motor Insurance Working Party Chair, Sara Landini (Italy)
• New Technologies in Vehicle Design - Neutral/LowEmissions Vehicles and Impact for Insurers- Robert McDonald (Australia), Senior Manager, Insurance Australia Group Research Centre

The session considered various issues raised by responses from AIDA National Sections, among others, to Questionnaires circulated in conjunction with the Green Car & Insurance project, considering levels and forms of encouragement being offered by motor insurers and others of green car use and eco-friendly driving practices and incentives, presently being undertaken under the leadership of Prof Sara Landini, AIDA Motor Insurance Working Party Chair and the updating of National Reports upon Climate Change issues being undertaken by the AIDA Climate Change Working Party.