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Wildfire risk is expanding across France, new AXA Climate map shows
New mapping by AXA Climate shows that conditions conducive to wildfires are now extending across the entire country. For decades, wildfire risk in France was seen as a challenge largely confined to the Mediterranean coast. But climate change is not only increasing the...
Microfinance and climate risk: between exposure and opportunity
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are a cornerstone of local development in emerging and developing economies. By financing small entrepreneurs, farmers and underserved households, they often serve as the primary bridge between vulnerable populations and the formal...
Dominican Republic contracts first parametric insurance as part of its adaptive social protection system
The Dominican Republic has become the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to integrate parametric insurance into its adaptive social protection system. Developed through the Tripartite Agreement between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the...
The Adaptation and Resilience Investment Opportunity for Infrastructure
Targeted investments in resilient infrastructure can reduce financial losses, protect millions of jobs and asset value, and minimize disruptions of essential services in emerging markets, according to a new report by the World Bank Group, AXA Climate, and Scientific...
Climate Risks and Telecom Infrastructure in Africa: From Vulnerability to Resilience
Telecommunications networks are now a backbone of Africa’s economic and social development. They connect businesses to markets, enable digital services, and support everything from mobile banking to emergency communications. However, across Africa, telecom...
A New Index for Wind Risk: A Scalable Model for Windstorm Insurance
Windstorms cause more forest damage in Europe than any other natural hazard. AXA Climate has developed and validated a climate-sensitive insurance framework for windthrow risk — now tested across Germany, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Denmark — that delivers credible...
AXA Climate Transfers Climate School to Apave to Accelerate Its Next Stage of Development
Apave, an international group with over 150 years of expertise in technical, environmental, human, and digital risk management, has today announced the acquisition of Climate School, AXA Climate’s dedicated climate change training division. This acquisition follows...
Biodiversity: less than half of threatened species are protected in France
AXA Climate has published a study on biodiversity in France and its overseas territories. It reveals that only 43% of threatened species, identified using internationally recognised scientific methodologies, are protected by law. It also highlights significant...
Advancing climate risk transparency in the global metals and minerals sector
The mining and metals sector sits at the centre of a structural paradox. It is among the most carbon-intensive industries globally, with rising demand for electronics and modern infrastructure driving continued growth in extraction and production. At the same time,...
Lagos State launches parametric flood insurance protecting up to 4 million people
Designed and structured by AXA Climate alongside leading insurance and risk modelling partners, the Lagos State government has contracted a parametric flood-risk insurance policy in the Nigerian insurance market, covering up to 4 million vulnerable people across 7...
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...