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Risk transfer is often overlooked in discussions relating to climate change and adaptation to it, as instruments including weather risk transfer and catastrophe reinsurance are able to send price signals to help public and private sector entities better understand the economic value at risk.

The use of efficient capital from the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, along with advanced technology and expanding amounts of data, can help the world in addressing climate risk, comments by Barney Schauble, Managing Principal at Nephila Advisors suggest.

Nephila Advisors’ Co-Founder Greg Hagood feels scale is becoming increasingly important for insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers, and believes the next evolution of the ILS market is to “rationalise a very inefficient distribution chain.”

Over the last two decades Nephila Capital has become the world’s largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager. While the industry has taken positive strides in this period, there are just as many challenges today as there was 20 years ago, but change is coming, according to the firm’s co-founder and principal, Frank Majors.

Ceres is an interesting non-profit organisation that leads a national coalition of investors, environmental organisations and other public interest groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change and water scarcity. Their stated mission is to integrate sustainability into every day business practices which is a worthwhile effort in our opinion.