We shouldn’t just be insuring buildings, we need to insure our wetlands

Nature and profits go hand in hand. Green infrastructure needs to support physical infrastructure. Regulations need to protect them both.

Through their pollinating services, bees add an estimated $4.6-billion to Canada’s economy, and without them, we lose the resilience of our plants, writes Diane-Laure Arjaliès. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY DIANE-LAURE ARJALIèS

December 11, 2019

In 2018, severe weather events cost Canada $1.9-billion in insured damage, according to the Catastrophe Indices and Quantification. Most people think that the greatest risks of weather events is to buildings and infrastructure. It’s not. The greatest risk is to our natural resources, and yet who i...

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