Ecuador contracts first parametric insurance for climate-vulnerable farmers
Ecuador has contracted the country’s first parametric agricultural insurance policies, covering 2,800 smallholder rice and maize farmers, benefiting approximately 10,000 people, against extreme rainfall and drought risk in the climate-vulnerable provinces of Guayas,...
Madagascar’s Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) Phase 1 Delivers Major Progress in Disaster Risk Analytics
Supported by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) the first phase of the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) programme in Madagascar has been successfully completed, marking a significant step forward in strengthening the country’s disaster risk analytics...
Keys to Success for Asset Managers in Decarbonisation
Building on the work of Initiative Climat International (iCI) and its net-zero framework for private equity, AXA Climate and France Invest’s Climate Working Group set out a practical roadmap to turn portfolio decarbonisation into a core driver of value creation for...
The Impact of Sugarcane Fertilizers On Water Quality and Coral Reefs in Brazil
As COP30 unfolds in Belém, Brazil is at the center of global conversations about the nexus between climate, biodiversity, and sustainable production. While the Amazon often dominates headlines, another natural treasure—Brazil’s coral reefs—quietly plays a critical...
Without climate adaptation, Catalonia and Barcelona face a 14% GDP per capita loss by 2050
Fundación AXA has presented a new study conducted by AXA Climate on the risks that climate change poses to Catalonia, Barcelona and its local economy. The study focuses on three key climate risks for with a time horizon to 2050. Its intention is to equip...
The freshwater cycle: 5 key questions with Nicolas Flipo, Director of Research at École des Mines de Paris
Historic droughts in France, Mediterranean heatwaves, empty reservoirs in parts of Spain, and international tensions over water sharing in river basins such as the Nile or the Mekong: freshwater is now at the center of environmental crises. In September 2023, a global...
6 Case Studies for a Successful Agricultural Transition
By 2050, water availability in France could face conditions similar to those experienced in Spain, southern Italy, or the Maghreb over the past 30 years. In the face of climate change, beyond water scarcity, agriculture will be increasingly exposed to heatwaves,...
Disruption of the Cycles of Nitrogen and Phosphorus : Sylvain Pellerin, Research Director at INRAE, answers five key questions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/celine-bellard-b99206303/As European agriculture faces a period of profound tension—marked by widespread farmer protests against environmental regulations and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)—another crisis, quieter but equally alarming, continues to intensify: the...
Quantifying the unseen: Building a nature and biodiversity risk-adjusted sovereign index
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are not just environmental concerns, they are material financial risks. Our latest research with FTSE Russell shows how these nature-related risks directly affect sovereign debt and creditworthiness, through channels such as...
Nature insurance: AXA Climate to design coverage for the Mesoamerican Reef
The Mesoamerican Reef Fund (MAR Fund) and Willis, a WTW business (NASDAQ: WTW), recently announced the appointment of AXA Climate as the insurance solutions designer for the fifth annual placement of the MAR Insurance Programme — a pioneering nature insurance solution...