
Fri, 11/17/2017
On the sidelines of the U.N. climate talks in Bonn this week, officials experimented with a game aimed at giving them a real-life flavor of the pressures to find the right response to worsening climate-related disasters, Thomson Reuters Foundation News reports . The game was invented by Pablo Suarez, a World Bank consultant in the Disaster Risk Financing & Insurance Program. Global Index Insurance Facility's Manager Fatou Assah was at the event. " The game 'gives you a sense of what’s at stake'," Ms. Assah said. “You can lose it all. If you’re the minister of finance you realize the money...