Conclusions on innovative solutions for financing disaster prevention

As part of the main results of the 3043rd Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, 8 and 9 November 2010, this document invites the Commission to: (i) publish a catalogue of EU financial instruments available for funding prevention activities and develop additional tools to help Member States' authorities to identify appropriate disaster prevention and when possible integrated disaster prevention and adaptation to climate change projects; (ii) promote the funding of prevention projects through the Civil Protection Financial Instrument and other relevant financial instruments seeking to translate relevant outcomes of Research and Development (R&D) projects into practical applications; (iii) continue fostering collaboration and knowledge transfer among Member States in the area of disaster prevention and its mainstreaming with the adaptation to climate change; (iv) prepare an assessment of options for better integrating prevention into EU funding instruments; (v) evaluate and report on the potential for the EU to facilitate and support increased coverage of appropriate disaster risk insurance services and financial risk transfer markets, as well as regional insurance pooling, in terms of knowledge transfer, cooperation, or seed financing; (vi) present, by the end of 2012, relevant initiatives on innovative solutions for financing disaster prevention; among other recommendations.