The role of environmental insurance in maintaining environmental safety of the region

In the article, the development problems of environmental insurance as a risk management method for maintaining environmental safety in the region are considered. The detailed analysis of the laws of the Russian Federation in conservation activity is presented; contradictions and shortcomings are revealed. Ways of overcoming of the existing formal character of maintaining environmental safety in the Russian regions are offered. In particular, extension of insurance covering in the current law «On compulsory insurance of the civil liability of an owner of dangerous installation on the infliction of harm as a result of accident on dangerous installation» at the expense of inclusion in number of insurance risks of risk of environmental harm. The special attention in the article is paid to insurance of public liability of owners of chemical objects as the most dangerous to the environment. The methodology of actuarial expectation is added with a risk assessment of expert services with the use of a scoring method allowing evaluating real danger to the population and the environment by the chemicals, which are especially acting in small doses. Furthermore, the added calculation methodology of insurance tariffs allows using preventive function of insurance, not so popular in Russian practices. That gives a new source of financing of nature-conservative measures in the region.