Climate Change and Catastrophe Management in a Changing China
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Climate Change and Catastrophe Management in a Changing China

Government, Insurance and Alternatives

9781788111850 Edward Elgar Publishing
Qihao He, Associate Professor, College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
Publication Date: 2019 ISBN: 978 1 78811 185 0 Extent: 288 pp
China is the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world and also suffers from devastating climate catastrophes. Increasingly, policymakers in China have come to realize that government alone cannot adequately prevent or defray climate-related disaster risks. This book contends that a better way to manage catastrophe risk in China is through private insurance rather than directly through the Chinese government. In addition, private insurance could function as a substitute for, or complement to, government regulation of catastrophe risks by causing policyholders to take greater precautions to reduce climate change risks.

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China is the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world and also suffers from devastating climate catastrophes. Increasingly, policymakers in China have come to realize that government alone cannot adequately prevent or defray climate-related disaster risks. This book contends that a better way to manage catastrophe risk in China is through private insurance rather than directly through the Chinese government. In addition, private insurance could function as a substitute for, or complement to, government regulation of catastrophe risks by causing policyholders to take greater precautions to reduce climate change risks.

This book’s unique contribution lies in explaining how private sector insurance could be harnessed to better protect China from climate change risks, addressing the shortcomings in China’s private sector when it comes to the incentive and capacity to provide catastrophe insurance. Following the dual principles of insurers acting as private risk regulators and the government acting as a last resort, this book proposes a multi-layered public-private catastrophe insurance partnership in China. It uses a thorough combination of law and economics methodology to analyze these issues.

Researchers, academics, and journalists writing on climate change in China will have a strong interest in this book, as will practitioners and policy-making bodies, Chinese government officials and agencies in insurance, finance and environmental regulation, private lawyers, private insurers, and global reinsurers.
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Contents: Introduction 1. Climate change, catastrophe risk, and government stimulation of the insurance market—a study of transitional China 2. Climate change, and financial instruments to cover disasters: What role for insurance in transitional China? 3. Mitigation of climate-change risks and regulation by insurance 4. Regulation by catastrophe insurance: a comparative study 5. Regulation by government-sponsored reinsurance in catastrophe management 6. Innovations in insurance markets and securitization of catastrophe risk: experiences and lessons to learn 7. Roadmap for transitional reform in China Index
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