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Build capabilities to ensure correct assessment of climate change risks: RBI Dy Guv Rao
The climate-specific vulnerabilities’ interplay with real economy...
Zurich Resilience Solutions and GoImpact Capital Partners forge strategic alliance for APAC climate resilience
Initially targeting businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, and...
Need to ensure 100% renewables alongside electric vehicles to tackle climate crisis: Experts
''Changes in transport need to go hand in hand with changes in the wider energy system. We must increase reclamation and recycling in the batteries sector and see much more research and investment in battery technology. We also need to reduce the number of cars on the...
Heat stress rising in India, heat waves second biggest killer among natural forces
Data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that also captures accidental deaths including those from climatic stress, shows that between 2015 and 2020, 2,137 people had reportedly died due to heat stroke in the states in the northwest. But the southern...
Europe’s resilience test for banks’ climate risk is softer than expected
Banks participating in the exercise had to estimate how events such as floods would impact mortgage values, or how big a hit they faced if corporate clients defaulted after a spike in carbon prices Europe’s Landmark Test of Banks’ Resilience to Climate Risk Is Softer...
Gallagher Re & Africa Re team up to address protection gap in Africa
Antoine Bavandi, Global Head of Public Sector, Parametric & Climate Resilience Solutions at Gallagher Re, added: “We are thrilled to begin this journey with Africa Re and its partners. We will be putting to work our expertise in various domains to come up with the...
Hong Kong exchange enlists HSBC, Tencent to help create carbon market
Worldwide efforts to combat climate change have spawned voluntary carbon markets, which allow emitters to offset their carbon by purchasing so-called credits, which are issued by projects targeted at removing or cutting emissions Hong Kong: Hong Kong's stock exchange...
Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding
For heatwaves and extreme rainfall, “we find we have a much better understanding of how the intensity of these events is changing due to climate change,” said study co-author Luke Harrington, a climate scientist at Victoria University of Wellington Less understood,...
Maruti Suzuki to phase out pure petrol-powered cars in 10 years
The move comes as Maruti, India's biggest car manufacturer, looks to update its product offerings in line with green targets set by the Indian government, the report said BENGALURU: Automaker Maruti Suzuki India will phase out vehicles that run completely on petrol in...
Saving Ocean: Global emergency
Among the challenges the Ocean faces are coastal erosion, rising sea levels, warmer and more acidic waters, marine pollution, overexploitation of fish stocks and decrease of marine biodiversity Recognizing the past “collective failure” in the Conference’s final...
Antoine Bavandi appointed as Gallagher Re’s Global Head of Public Sector, Parametric & Climate Resilience Solutions
Antoine will lead Gallagher Re’s newly established Public Sector & Climate Resilience Solutions global practice, with responsibility for developing Gallagher Re’s core offering globally and driving profitability as well as developmental impact London: Gallagher...
Vulnerability driving emerging-world climate policy commitments: WTW analysis
Of 62 nations and territories assessed in the WTW Political Risk Index, the governments of Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Philippines, Chile, and Senegal are most strongly committed to prioritising climate when making public policy. Understanding a country’s vulnerability...