Abstract
Nature-based solutions (NBS) can act as risk redistribution elements
within risk management strategies in which insurances play an important
role. The (re)insurance industry has been developing its own catastrophe
models since the late 1980s for monitoring the ongoing challenge of
climate change for decades. The integration of preventive measures, like
concrete dikes, into those models is partially effective. But the
complex effect of NBS, as preventive measures, on hazard reduction is a
scientific challenge and in its infancy. Nevertheless, the (re)insurance
industry has started assessing nature-based solutions’ effectiveness (as
preventive measures) in reducing risks and their co-benefits. NBS could
secure long-term affordability of climate risks insurance schemes in a
changing climate.