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Contents. Climate change and insurance in the United States. The effects of climate change on extreme weather events is requiring the insurance industry in the United States to recalculate risk assessments for various types of insurance. [ 1 ][ 2 ] From 1980 to 2005, private and federal government insurers in the United States paid $320 billion ...
Climate change can also reduce access to clean and safe water supply. Extreme weather and its health impact can also threaten the livelihoods and economic stability of people. These factors together can lead to increasing poverty, human migration, violent conflict, and mental health issues. [7][8]
One of the ironies of climate change is that as it is making insurance unavailable or unaffordable for millions of Americans, many homeowners are forced to turn to last-resort insurers who are ...
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced "Reggie") is the first mandatory market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the United States.RGGI is a cooperative effort among the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia to cap and reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions ...
Based on those metrics, the Northeast came out ahead in a ranking of counties rated in terms of relative safety from the effects of a warming world. Six of the 10 best-rated U.S. counties were ...
Insurance firm Nationwide last year did not renew around 10,000 policies in parts of North Carolina due in part to risks posed by climate change and hurricanes.
Climate change is having considerable impacts on the environment and society of the United States. This includes implications for agriculture, the economy (especially the affordability and availability of insurance), human health, and indigenous peoples, and it is seen as a national security threat. [14]
Climate change can affect wellbeing and mental health also through indirect consequences, such as "loss of land, flight and migration, exposure to violence, change of social, ecological, economic or cultural environment". [17] Indirect effects on mental health can also occur via impacts on physical health.