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Securing the future availability and affordability of home insurance in areas of flood risk
This consultation seeks the Government of the United Kingdom's views on proposals for securing the availability and affordability of flood insurance in areas of flood risk. The consultation is divided into ten sections: (i) section one introduces the geographical extent covered by the document and the purpose of the consultation; (ii) section two describes the background of flood risk in the UK, current availabilities of insurance, and the government's objectives in creating flood insurance policy for the UK; (iii) section three explains the current actions taken by the UK Government toward in ...
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Available online: https://consult.defra.gov.uk/flooding/floodinsurance/supporting_documents/201306 [...]
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom)
Published by: United Kingdom Government ; 2013This consultation seeks the Government of the United Kingdom's views on proposals for securing the availability and affordability of flood insurance in areas of flood risk. The consultation is divided into ten sections: (i) section one introduces the geographical extent covered by the document and the purpose of the consultation; (ii) section two describes the background of flood risk in the UK, current availabilities of insurance, and the government's objectives in creating flood insurance policy for the UK; (iii) section three explains the current actions taken by the UK Government toward investment flood risk management; (iv) section four proposes four possible solutions to fill the current gaps in flood insurance; (v) section five proposes a conclusive solution for insurance in the UK; (vi) section six presents detailed proposals on Flood Re; (vii) section seven presents detailed proposals on the flood insurance obligation; (viii) section eight outlines next steps for action toward a flood risk resilient UK; (ix) section nine calls for responses to the consultation; (x) and section ten lists a summary of the consultation questions.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Disaster Risk Financing, Disaster risk transfer ; Flood ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Climate change, rivers and rainfall : recent research on climate change science from the Hadley Centre
The Met.Office, 2005The global average temperature for 2004 was around 0.75 °C above that at the end of the 19th century, making it the fourth warmest year on record. There is now strong evidence that extremes of rainfall over land have changed during recent decades. However, some areas do experience changes opposite to the global average trends. There is evidence that human Activity is changing river flows, both directly through global warming and through the effect of increasing carbon dioxide on plant behaviour.
Predictions from Hadley Centre climate models show that further increases in temperature an ...
Climate change, rivers and rainfall: recent research on climate change science from the Hadley Centre
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Available online: http://cedadocs.badc.rl.ac.uk/248/1/COP11.pdf
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom)
Published by: The Met.Office ; 2005The global average temperature for 2004 was around 0.75 °C above that at the end of the 19th century, making it the fourth warmest year on record. There is now strong evidence that extremes of rainfall over land have changed during recent decades. However, some areas do experience changes opposite to the global average trends. There is evidence that human Activity is changing river flows, both directly through global warming and through the effect of increasing carbon dioxide on plant behaviour.
Predictions from Hadley Centre climate models show that further increases in temperature and rainfall are expected during the 21st century. Temperature is expected to increase almost
everywhere but with rainfall the pattern of change is more variable — it will increase in some areas but decrease in others.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill., charts, maps)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Global warming ; Region I - Africa
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