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As communities in Small Island Developing States experience these challenges firsthand, climate risk insurance is emerging as a potential tool to help families and local businesses recover more quickly and build resilience.

This issue highlights how India is deploying parametric insurance to protect vulnerable communities from extreme heat. With rising climate risks, it stresses urgent innovation in risk transfer mechanisms, especially for women and informal sector workers.

The municipalities of Kloto 1, Golfe 1, and Golfe 7 in Togo have officially signed an innovative insurance policy aimed at strengthening their resilience against flooding.

Mutual insurer MAIF (Mutuelle assurance des Instituteurs de France) is strengthening its climate risk modeling capabilities with access to a comprehensive suite of Moody's high-definition risk models.

Much of the world lacks earthquake insurance, but when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation was protected.

To enhance the Dominican Republic’s resilience to climate-related events, the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) is supporting a partnership between the country’s social protection program Supérate, along with an international consortium.

This column examines how escalating disaster costs, market failures, and the need for better prevention urge to redefine societies' risk management mechanisms in an increasingly uncertain climate landscape.

For women farmers in rural India, the effects of climate change are compounded by limited access to finance, smaller plots and fewer land rights. Parametric insurance products can offer better protection.