"
Pressure on insurance premiums
is a symptom. The disease is the
increased threat that we face from
our changing climate."
—Aaron Sutherland, vice-president, Western & Pacific region,
Insurance Bureau of Canada
on what governments do when
it comes to things like building
codes, development decisions
and regulation of the industry.
Ultimately, though, it boils
down to how society deals
with the underlying problem
of climate change.
"It really is going to require
a whole-of-society response,
and I think it's imperative we
start thinking of this growing
climate risk as a question
of when, not if, and start
realizing it is going to hit. It is
going to impact me and my
community," says Sutherland.
"California was slow to
adapt and has been woeful in
the investments it's making to
protect its communities moving
forward. Unfortunately, that's
also true for British Columbia,"
he says. "But we still have
time. Let's look at what's
happening south of the border
as informative of what we need
to do today to prevent the same
thing from happening here."
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