Reports from University of Paris Highlight Recent Findings in Climate Change (The “environment Making State” and Climate Change: the French “cat Nat” Reinsurance Scheme Under Strain): Climate Change

2022 DEC 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Current study results on Climate Change have been published. According to news reporting from Paris, France, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “In 2012, SCOR, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, sued the French state, challenging a public-private natural disaster insurance scheme, called the ‘cat nat’ regime. It campaigned in favour of a ‘real’ natural disaster insurance market.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Paris, “The purpose of this paper is to grasp the logic of this litigation. It reveals growing tensions regarding the insurance of natural disasters, against the backdrop of climate change. To make sense of this, we will build on Christian Parenti’s theory of the ‘environment making state’. This approach aims at understanding the interaction between capitalism, states, and nature. The question we will pose is: what happens to ‘environment making’ institutions in times of crisis? Crisis leads to the ‘politicisation’ of ‘environment making’: decisions concerning the management of natural hazards are increasingly taken by the executive branch.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This ‘politicisation’ may represent an important evolution in the relationship between capitalism, states, and nature in the future.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The “environment Making State” and Climate Change: the French “cat Nat” Reinsurance Scheme Under Strain. Antipode, 2022. Antipode can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Antipode - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8330)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Razmig Keucheyan, University of Paris Cite, Dept. of Sociology, Paris, France.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12901. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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