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August 19, 2025

Case Study: Improving urban resilience in Medellín, Colombia through insurance protection for climate risks and natural disasters

One of the main objectives was to improve the urban resilience of Medellín and its capacity to respond to natural disasters by designing a parametric product to transfer disaster risk related to floods, landslides, and earthquakes.

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