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A new liability insurance for climate change
Zukunftsblog
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In order to better meet the challenges of climate change, we propose an approach that builds on the lessons of Swiss housing insurance: a new type of liability insurance that could compensate for losses among public infrastructure due to extreme weather and provide investments for climate change mitigation and adaptation.