an introduction to climate risk insurance

Climate shocks – including increasingly severe and frequent droughts, heatwaves, storms and floods – are taking a disproportionate toll on people living in poverty, the majority of whom, an estimated two billion around the world, depend on smallholder farming. Climate risk insurance is an emerging tool to build resilience to extreme weather shocks among the poorest communities.  Check out our guide below to find out more about climate risk insurance and how it is helping to protect millions of farmers from the impacts of climate change.