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Earth fails six health tests in ‘Breakthrough’ scientific study
“This does not mean that we are pushing the planet across an...
Weak El Nino conditions prevailing over the equatorial Pacific region: IMD
El Nino, characterised by elevated ocean surface temperatures in...
Global assessment shows hundreds of species face extinction without immediate action
“We now recognise 853 AZE sites – far more of these last refuges for species than previously known. In order to save any species, the number one priority is to protect their habitats, but 43 per cent of these sites lack any formal protection whatsoever” said Dr Ian Burfield, Global Science Coordinator at BirdLife International and lead coordinator of the new AZE site assessment.
UN collaborates with global insurers to tackle climate change impacts
The pilot group will develop analytical tools that they will use to pioneer insurance industry climate risk disclosures that are in line with the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This will require them to make use of the latest climate science, including some of the most advanced, forward-looking climate scenarios available.
U.S. Residential Solar Projects Turn to Output Insurance
A tool designed as an insurance policy for solar-power generation will be used to manage the risk associated with U.S. residential systems for the first time as part of a financing agreement backing 4,000 projects in the Northeast
Microsoft gears up for another digital revolution with quantum computing,
A quantum computer can solve complex problems that would otherwise take billions of years for today’s computers to solve. This has massive implications for research in health care, energy, environmental systems, global warming, smart materials and more.
India’s insurance gaps rise, at $27bn it constitutes 1.0% of its GDP :Lloyd’s report
In Lloyd’s Underinsurance Report 2018, underinsurance continues to represent a significant threat to global economic development with an estimated US$163bn of assets underinsured in the world today.While the global gap has closed by almost 3% over the last six years, the gap for Asian countries included in the report has widened by 9.4% to US$134bn. At the same time, the world has seen a series of extreme weather-related catastrophes and new risks such as cyber attacks have emerged, posing additional threats to society.
Cost of climate-linked disasters soars: United Nations
The economic cost of climate-related disasters hit USD 2.25 billion over the last two decades, an increase of more than 250 percent compared to the previous 20 years, the UN said on Wednesday. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) noted...
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires “rapid & far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport & cities:IPCC
“One of the key messages that comes out very strongly from this report is that we are already seeing the consequences of 1°C of global warming through more extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice, among other changes,” said Panmao Zhai, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I.
CO2 emissions cost India $210 billion every year: Study
The model accounts for everything that happens in the economy today that is sensitive to environmental conditions, said Ricke.”This includes agricultural yields, vector borne disease, reduced worker productivity due to heat, increased frequency of extreme precipitation resulting in infrastructure damages or any of the other many ways that human systems get impacted by climate conditions,” Ricke added.
Florence portends more massive hurricanes in age of global warming
“There is going to be both more inland flooding and more storm-surge, ocean-related flooding because the ocean is getting higher,” said Brion Callori, senior vice president of engineering and research at commercial property insurance firm FM Global.
Bangkok meet fails to finalise draft on climate change rules
Harjeet Singh, climate policy manager for ActionAid International, said Sunday that a vital component of the Paris agreement is for wealthy nations to provide financial assistance to developing countries as they fight natural disasters brought by climate change.