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Amaravati set to become world’s first fully renewable-powered city
With an ambitious plan to harness 2,700 megawatts (MW) of green...
China tightens regulations on battery-powered vehicles for higher safety standards
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday...
UN says U.S. concerns have led to insurers quitting climate alliance
Reinsurer Swiss Re on Monday joined Munich Re, Zurich Insurance, and Hannover Re in exiting the Net Zero Insurance Alliance amid growing pressure in the U.S., where some Republican politicians say these alliances could be breaking antitrust rules The United Nations...
IRDA hosts 2-day international event on “Insurance and Retirement savings in Asia”
Some of the prominent speakers at the international conference include Debasish Panda, chiarman, IRDAI, Prof Yoshihiro Kawai, chair of the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee, Pablo Antolin, head, insurance and Pensions Unit, Directorate for Financial and...
Swiss Re exits Net Zero Insurance Alliance
The departure follows that of fellow Swiss firm Zurich Insurance Group AG, as well as Germany’s Munich Re and Hannover Re NZIA has no US members, and with the departure of Swiss Re, it has roughly 27 left, including Allianz SE, Aviva Plc and Axa SA, according to the...
India lost over 1.3 lakh lives in disasters linked to extreme weather, climate change in 50 years: UN agency
Globally, 11,778 reported disasters led to more than two million deaths and USD 4.3 trillion in economic losses during this period ''Between 1970 and 2021, Asia accounted for 47 per cent of all reported deaths worldwide, with tropical cyclones being the leading cause...
Chronic diseases taking ‘immense and increasing toll on lives’, warns WHO
A 46-year-old Cambodian man who lost his leg to diabetes. The annual global death toll from non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, is estimated at 36 million. Photo: IRIN During 2020-2021, COVID-19 resulted in 336.8 million years of life...
Heat insurance offers climate change lifeline to poor workers in Gujarat
Nonprofit Arsht-Rock Foundation Resilience Center in partnership with microinsurance startup Blue Marble and a trade union has one of the world's first parametric insurance schemes for extreme heat in Gujarat If temperatures climb high enough above historical averages...
Britain mandates 20 offshore carbon storage licenses
Britain aims to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which involves filtering planet-warming carbon from industrial smokestacks before it hits the atmosphere and storing it underground, to hold 20 million to 30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030 London: Twelve...
Over half the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs drying up: Study
To study the question systematically, the team, which included scientists from the United States, France, and Saudi Arabia, looked at Earth's biggest 1,972 lakes and reservoirs, using observations from satellites from 1992-2020 More than half of the world's largest...
Cities risk irreversible damage due to environmental degradation: Officials
''Be it Panaji, Thane, Surat, our cities could suffer permanent damage if their green areas are not protected now. We need to take immediate measures to improve the state of the environment in our cities,'' Kunal Kumar, Mission Director of the Smart Cities Mission...
El Ninos cost trillions of dollars with lasting economic scars: Study
Study authors said the average El Nino costs the global economy about $3.4 trillion. The strong 1997-1998 one cost USD 5.7 trillion. The World Bank estimated the 1997-1998 El Nino cost governments USD 45 billion, which is more than 100 times smaller than the Dartmouth...