Insurance

The (re-)insurance industry has a critical role to play in DRR. With risk at the core of its business, the industry has an opportunity to lead both from an insurance/lability side as well as asset management to change the current single hazard, short-term business approach of the sector and encourage risk-informed business management strategies and practice.

Latest on insurance from the private sector

Documents and publications

Good Practice

24 December 2020

Private sector strengths applied: good practices in disaster risk reduction from Japan

This document presents a selection of fourteen case studies focusing on good practices and lessons learned by the private sector in relation to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Kokusai Kogyo Co, Ltd.

Update

20 October 2020

ARISE Board Meeting

The first meeting of the new ARISE Board, elected by ARISE members in July 2020 for a three-year period, took place on 19 October 2020.

UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)