'Climate insurance urged for poor.
The UN wants insurance companies to help protect the world's poor against the impacts of climate change.
Insurance-based schemes could make money available to affected communities much faster than traditional aid, its climate meeting in Nairobi was told.
A pilot project in Ethiopia earlier this year insured 62,000 rural families against drought.
Computer models of climate change suggest droughts and floods will become more common across Africa.
Current extreme weather events on the continent affect most severely the livelihoods of people with no access to conventional insurance.
"Every year, the World Bank donates millions in order to repair events and to repair disasters; and we need a step change in the way we manage relief for poorer parts of the world," said Thomas Loster of the Munich Re Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation linked to the re-insurance giant.
"Through public-private partnerships that match seed money from public sources with the skills of the private sector, I believe we can do this by realising new kinds of risk cover across large parts of the developing world."
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