Dave Jones: "Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future: Solutions to the Insurance Crisis"

BEC Luncheon 

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Dave Jones: Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future: Solutions to the Insurance Crisis

Insurance Commissioner, Emeritus and Director, Climate Risk Initiative

UC Berkeley School of Law - Center for Law, Energy & the Environment

ABOUT THE EVENT

Insurance is the climate crisis’s canary in the coal mine. Climate change, due to increasing greenhouse-gas emissions, is causing more extreme and severe natural catastrophes. Across the United States, property insurers are responding to substantial increases in risk and  losses  by increasing prices and not writing or renewing insurance. There are several measures that can help keep insurance available in the short to medium term. But the risk of loss from climate driven events keeps climbing and will eventually overwhelm the benefits of these additional policies. The only long-term solution to preserve an insurable future is to transition from fossil fuels and other greenhouse-gas-emitting industries.

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