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The stakeholder landscape in extreme events and climate risk management

This report provides insights about the patterns of stakeholder engagement in the international framework agreements related to disaster risk reduction, climate change and sustainable development over the last five decades. It presents the complex stakeholder landscape, multi-stakeholder initiatives in extreme event and climate risk management as well as highlights major developments in expanding risk transfer and insurance, over the last decade. The rapid increase in global economic losses from disasters has put the spotlight on insurability. The report finds that since 2005, there has been a burst of multi-lateral multi-stakeholder initiatives in disaster and climate risk management.

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