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Insurance and reinsurance underpin the global economy, and as climate impacts intensify, the insurance sector is increasingly the first place those impacts register in the real economy. Yet neither the sector nor the broader economy is adequately adapted to the extremes we are already experiencing, and will experience.

There is growing recognition that GDP alone cannot measure progress overall. Although it summarises economic trends in a single monetary metric, it overlooks many key non-market contributions of nature to economic activity and human well-being.

Radical Realism, Climate Change and the Challenge of Temperature Goal Overshoot by Prof. Debra Roberts. Prof. Roberts is a scientist who has spent four decades working at the science-policy-practice interface at local and international levels.

Understanding the climate obligations of South Africa in relation to changing policy in the USA, presented by Prof. Lucy Allais. Prof. Allais is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand and Johns Hopkins University.

Professor David King discusses the state of the Paris Agreement from his insider experience of international climate negotiations.

Pro VC Seminar: Reversing the Vicious Circle of Debt, Underdevelopment, and Environmental Change by Professor Ulrich Volz

Deadly Simplifications: Imagining the Future in a Warming World, by Amitav Ghosh, award-winning author, global thinker, environmentalist and climate advocate.