Climate change: Experts canvass need for insurance

Climate change: Experts canvass need for insurance

Chuks Udo Okonta

The public have been urged to embrace insurance to adapt and mitigate risks associated with flood and other natural disasters.
Lead Strategist Medialogistix Limited Dotun Adekanmbi, at a media forum on climate change organised by the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) in Lagos, said insurance remains one of the best ways to adapt and mitigate risks.
He urged the public to adhere to rules on environmental safety, adding that the problems posed by climate change stemmed from failure by individuals to obey environmental laws.
He noted that considering the enormity of challenges of climate change, the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) thought it necessary for the media to deliberate ways to communicate to the public how to manage the menace.
He said the effects of climate change affect all sphere of human endearvour, hence the government and the public should stand for what is right. He called on the media to intensify effort in educating the public on how to keep the environment safe to avoid disasters.
Deputy Editor, Sunday Independent newspaper, Michael Simire, called on insurers to be proactive and ensure that they take their services to the grassroots to help people mitigate risks associated with climate change.