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Corporate ‘Irritation’ over ESG fueled by significant costs
There’s evidence to suggest that fund managers devoting lots of...
LA wildfire losses can touch $164 billion, report says
Insured losses are estimated at $75 billion.The disaster will...
Hurricane Ian drives global Nat Cat insured losses to $115 billion in 2022: Swiss Re
2022 is the second consecutive year in which the estimated insured losses total more than $100 billion, continuing the trend of a 5–7% average annual increase over the past decade The re/insurance industry covered roughly 45% of the economic losses this year,...
UN appeals for record $51.5 billion to help 230 million on the brink in 2023
At least “222 million people … will face acute food insecurity in 53 countries by the end of this year. In 2023, 45 million people in 37 countries risk starvation, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview Numerous countries had been hit by lethal droughts and...
Large parts of world drier than normal in 2021: WMO
Between 2001 and 2018, UN-Water reported that a staggering 74 per cent of all natural disasters were water-related The recent UN climate change conference, COP27, in Egypt, urged governments to further integrate water into adaptation efforts, the first-time water has...
Most Asian countries far behind biodiversity targets for protected areas: Research
Dr Mohammed Farhadinia of the Department of Biology and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, said: 'Asia is a challenging continent for setting targets for protected areas since areas of high biodiversity typically conflict with dense human populations and...
Countrywide campaign next year for eco-friendly lifestyle: environment minister
Addressing the special United Nations Country Team (UNCT) at the UN House in New Delhi, Yadav said UN India was working with the Niti Aayog and the ministry to create a ''LiFE compendium of global best practices on sustainable lifestyles''. New Delhi: Union...
Govt open to making changes in PMFBY in response to recent climate crisis, tech advancement: Agri secy
Manoj Ahuja, secretary,Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ''Since farming is exposed directly to such climatic catastrophes, it is important and critical to protect the vulnerable farming community of the country from the vagaries of nature. the government...
AP focuses on ‘climate change governance’, sets up special cell
Special Chief Secretary (EFST Department) Neerabh Kumar Prasad said coastal zone disasters (cyclones), drought, adverse human health effects and depleting water resources were some of the challenges AP faced Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government has created an...
Australia’s extreme weather events to worsen as climate warms
In a dire report released Wednesday that will add to pressure on the government to take firmer action on climate change, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Bureau of Meteorology said rising greenhouse gas levels are causing the...
COP27 ends with historic decision on damage fund, little progress on other issues
“The countries fell short of agreeing to a phasedown of all fossil fuels, which speaks to the energy crisis and the hold of the oil and gas lobby at this COP,” Aarti Khosla, Director, Climate Trends New Delhi: While the UN climate summit in Egypt concluded with a...
World has waited far too long for this: India on compensation fund approved at UN climate talk
''We note that we are establishing a four-year work program on climate action in agriculture and food security. Agriculture, the mainstay of livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers, will be hard hit from climate change. So, we should not burden them with...