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...
Agricultural Transition: How to Succeed and Manage its Economic Risks
As climate hazards intensify, yields fluctuate, and expectations around sustainability rise, regenerative agriculture and agroecology are emerging as the way forward. But how can this transformation be supported without placing the full weight of economic risk on...
A Pioneering Parametric Insurance Programme to Protect the Caribbean’s Second-Largest Coral Reef
https://climate.axa/publications/parametric-insurance-programme-to-protect-the-caribbeans-second-largest-coral-reef/In response to the growing threats that hurricanes pose to coral reefs in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, a coalition of partners — AXA COLPATRIA, AXA Climate, Fondo Acción, and WTW Alternative Risk Transfer — has jointly...
Biodiversity erosion: Céline Bellard, biologist and researcher at the CNRS, answers five crucial questions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/celine-bellard-b99206303/With species extinction rates up to 1,000 times higher than the natural rate, it is becoming urgent to understand the pressures on ecosystems and the consequences for our societies.To discuss biodiversity loss, we asked Céline Bellard, a biologist and researcher at...
Henri Bourgeois-Costa, circular economy expert and environmental systems specialist, answers five crucial questions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henri-bourgeois-costa/More than 350,000 chemical substances are currently listed in global trade, a continuous flow of novel entities that is pushing humanity beyond one of the most critical planetary boundaries. A geographer by training, expert in circular economy and specialist in...
Climate change: Olivier Boucher, a specialist in climate modelling, answers 5 crucial questions.
https://climate.axa/publications/climate-change-olivier-boucher-a-specialist-in-climate-modelling-and-climate-change-answers-5-crucial-questions/In this article, Olivier Boucher, climatologist, research director at the CNRS and expert at the IPCC, sheds light on climate change from the perspective of planetary boundaries. A specialist in climate modelling, he answers five key questions to help us understand...