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Climate Change:Swiss Re stops covers for businesses with 30% thermal coal exposure
It is a further step in refining Swiss Re’s approach to managing carbon-related sustainability risks and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.The thermal coal policy applies to both existing and new thermal coal mines and power plants, and is implemented across all lines of business and Swiss Re’s global scope of operations.
Climate change could cost India 2.8% of GDP by 2050:World Bank
“These weather changes will result in lower per capita consumption levels that could further increase poverty and inequality in one of the poorest regions of the world, South Asia,” said Muthukumara Mani, Lead Economist World Bank.
Global Warming Likely to Exceed Paris Agreement Cap of 1.5°C by 2040: UN
“Economic growth is projected to be lower at 2°C warming than at 1.5° for many developed and developing countries,” the UN report said , drained by impacts such as floods or droughts that can undermine crop growth or an increase in human deaths from heatwaves.
Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before
In the last quarter century, the southern-most continent’s ice sheet – a key indicator of climate change – melted into enough water to cover Texas to a depth of nearly 13 feet (4 meters), scientists calculated. All that water made global oceans rise about three-tenths of an inch (7.6 millimeters)
European Corporations Given Guidance on Factoring Climate Risk in Financials
Concerns in the financial community that assets are being mispriced because climate risk is not being factored into financial reporting has prompted demand for more meaningful and transparent climate-related financial information.
Strict curbs on global warming to buoy world economy: Study
The Paris accord, among almost 200 nations, set a goal of limiting a rise in average world surface temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2100, while “pursuing efforts” for 1.5C (2.7F).
NASA study shows freshwater decline in India
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that Earth’s wetland areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting drier due to a variety of factors, including human water management, climate change and natural cycles.
Climate change could raise food shortage globally: Study
Wetter conditions are expected to have the biggest impact in South and East Asia, with the most extreme projections suggesting the flow of the River Ganges could more than double at 2 degrees Celsius global warming.
India, UK launch joint research projects for clean water, energy
“Eight projects to be supported under the Water Quality Research programme relate to optical sensor platform for water quality monitoring, fate and management of emerging contaminants, rainwater harvesting and its impacts, Vembanad lake rehabilitation, remediation of ground-water arsenic in Ganga river basin among others,”
Last three years hottest on record, severe weather hits 2018: U.N.
Atlantic hurricanes and monsoon floods in India contributed to make 2017 the most costly year on record for severe weather and climate events, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) wrote in its annual report on the global climate.