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This Week's Spotlight:

Fighting Poverty with Index Insurance

Index insurance remains a promising new tool to help alleviate poverty by reducing the impacts of climate shocks in the developing world. It may even increase the poor's resiliency to climate change. In October, IRI co-hosted a workshop to discuss the technical challenges that currently preclude the use of index insurance on a large scale. We share here some of the experiences and resources to come out of that meeting.

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Students in the Climate and Society master's program give presentations at local high schools and libraries. (The Earth Institute)

UN agencies join forces to bring weather insurance to rural poor people (Relief Web)

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