While some still doubt the magnitude or the existence of climate change, the chairman of the Great British insurance group Lloyd's just display its very strong concerns about new weather-related disasters. Preuve que le marché commence à prendre en compte la réalité de ce phénomène alors même que le lien de causalité entre réchauffement et action humaine fait encore l’objet de débats scientifiques.

A septic time on the reality of climate change, Peter Levene called on governments and businesses to act without delay to reduce the risks associated with climate change. It must be said that Hurricane Katrina has cost $ 6 billion to the British group. Thus he believes that "The insurance industry today is facing the risk of a mega-catastrophe $ 100 billion, twice more serious than Katrina"


Speaking directly to the American government, he added: "We can not afford to rebut disaster risks. Then, two years after Katrina and one year before the American presidential election, where is the national debate on this subject?". And to deliver his analysis "In the coming years, the warming of surface waters will increase the risk of hurricanes that strike land and devastating cyclones are likely," adding that the "hurricane season is getting longer and s 'spread to an area greater than before. "

But Lloyd'sn'est not an isolated case, a sign that the market gives integrates climate in its calculations, some major insurance companies such as American State Farm and Allstate have decided not to accept new fonts for several areas of the Atlantic coast because of fears of seeing the devastating cyclone.

Finally he concluded by adding that "Even if we were to stop all carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human activities today, we should always face thirty years of warming before the effect is felt," it launched. But we must not use this excuse to do nothing. History and future generations will not forgive us if we do not. "