Managing Environmental Risks through Insurance

Prof. Katarzyna Malinowska (dr hab) is legal counsel with many years of experience in business insurance and professor at the Leon Koźmiński University. She cooperates on an ongoing basis with the Association of Polish Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers and BIPAR. She is author of at least several dozen publications on insurance law, including insurance distribution. She acts as chair of the Polish section of AIDA (International Association of Insurance Law) for the 2018-2020 term and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. She is also an expert of the Risk Management Committee of the International Astronautical Federation, individual member of the International Committee on Space Law and the International Practice Group Leader of postgraduate studies in space entrepreneurship and 'Risk and Property Insurance, at Kozminski University.Prof. Dorota Maśniak, PhD, DSc (dr hab) is professor at the University of Gdansk, Head of the Insurance Law Laboratory in the Department of Civil Law at the University of Gdansk; legal counsel specializing in insurance law; academic lecturer, trainer of personnel of insurance companies, insurance intermediaries and banks; leading person and co-creator of the interdisciplinary program of studies at the University of Gdansk - Insurance.  She is an author of numerous publications on insurance, civil, financial law; her Phd dissertation concerned ecological insurance.  She acted as chair of the Polish section of AIDA (International Association of Insurance Law) for the 2020-2022 term and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Polish Financial Ombudsman in the term 2023-2026. She is an expert in Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics - IEG Poland (British Institute of International and Comparative Law).

• Law and environment. Prevention, control, responsibility.- Global Governance of the Environment and implications for the Insurance Industry.- Environmental liabilities and Insurance Law in the EU.- Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United Kingdom.- Managing Environmental Risk through Insurance: China.- Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United States.- Environmental Civil Liability In The Mercosur Region South America.- Environmental insurance product.- Prevention in environmental insurance.- Loss adjustment in the environmental insurance and the role of the loss adjuster.- Waste insurance.- Underwriting Environmental Risks for Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Coverage: Challenges and Best Practices Forward.- Liability for environmental damage in aviation.- Liability for environmental damage in outer space and its insurance.- Liability for pollution damage to the marine environment.