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Nigeria's largest city is protecting its most vulnerable residents with a new flood insurance program that pays out automatically when disaster strikes. The data-driven initiative marks a major win for climate justice in West Africa.
Four million people in Lagos, Nigeria now have access to a revolutionary insurance policy that pays out within hours of flooding, not months. It's the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa and could change how cities protect their most vulnerable residents from climate disasters.
Nigeria is expanding a successful flood insurance program that could protect millions of people from climate disasters. The UN is partnering with Nigerian regulators to make affordable disaster insurance available nationwide.
When floods strike Ghana's capital, help will now arrive in days instead of months thanks to a groundbreaking insurance system. Greater Accra just became the first region in the country to secure automatic financial protection against climate disasters.