13th Meeting of Climate & Catastrophic Events Working Party

09.00 - 11.00

Lima, Peru

Cultural Center of the Pontific Catholic University

The thirteenth meeting of the AIDA Climate Change Working Party took place between 09:00hrs to 11:00hrs on Tuesday 4 October 2016 at the Cultural Center of the Pontific Catholic University of Peru, Avenue Camino Real §075, district of San Isidro, Lima 27, Peru on the first of two days of meetings arranged by AIDA Peru and CILA.

Below is the Agenda of that meeting which was conducted in Spanish and was chaired by Gloria Faria (Brazil) with CCWP Chair, Tim Hardy, also in attendance.

Two formal presentations were delivered at the meeting and may be accessed here or very shortly when loaded:

Climate Questions in Brazil (including perceptions of Climate Change and the role of insurance to reduce physical loss and exposure including the aggravation of catastrophe losses and provision for agricultural losses) - Gloria Faria of CNSeg (Brazil)

Current Climate Change challenges in South America (particularly the role of parametric insurance products for agricultural risks from a Peruvian perspective - Miryam Aragon Espejo (Peru)

In advance of the meeting a 51-page Report was also prepared for the benefit of the meeting by the MERCOSUR Group, co-ordinated by Maria Kavanagh, Argentina, entitled, "Parametric Insurance Applied to the Agricultural Sector in the Mercosur Region”, a copy of which is below in both English and Spanish versions, upon which Miryam Aragon Espejo drew for her presentation.

A copy of the Minutes of the meeting is below. A list of registering attendees and those providing formal apologies is also in the list below.

Attached files