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India to focus on climate finance, protecting vulnerable communities COP29
India's key priorities at the conference are likely to focus on...
Spain floods to trigger total insurance losses in excess of $3.8 billion, will have limited impact on local re/insurers
Another rating agency S&P has said the catastrophic flash...
Full-scale nuclear war could kill 5 billion people, shows new study
Even a relatively small-scale conflict would have devastating consequences for global food production. A localized battle between India and Pakistan would see crop yields decline by an estimated 7% within five years, the study suggested, while a US-Russia war would...
Biden admin announces $3 billion in FEMA climate resilience funding
The White House said in April that the upper range of climate change’s hit to the U.S. budget by the end of the century could total a 7.1% annual revenue loss, equal to $2 trillion a year in today’s dollars The Biden administration on Friday announced it is putting...
France battles ‘monster’ wildfire near Bordeaux for third day
France is in the grip of its worst drought on record, with a fourth heatwave of the summer sweeping across the country this week. More than 57,200 hectares have gone up in flames so far in France this year, nearly six times the full-year average for 2006-2021, data...
River Godavari crosses first danger level in AP, 5 districts face flood threat
''We have issued the first warning signal at Dowaleswaram. We have accordingly alerted the officials of the districts along the river course to take required precautionary measures,'' State Disaster Management Authority Managing Director B R Ambedkar said Amaravati:...
Climate change making prediction difficult for weather agencies across world: IMD DG
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra,IMD, Director General The IMD is providing forecasts for 1,096 cities and towns, up from 350 stations in 2019. On climate change increasing the fragility of the Himalayas, he said, ''Climate change is a fact and we need to plan all our activities...
Take prompt action to prevent disasters during monsoons: Kerala HC to state govt
The high court said, ''Torrential rains in the state of Kerala cause disaster in many places due to landslides, denudation of water etc. There are damages to the property of people residing in poramboke lands, colonies, hillslopes, isolated locations, plantation...
WMO reports decrease in likelihood of severe Atlantic hurricane season ahead
Over the past 50 years, every single day, they have caused on average 43 deaths and $78 million in damages, according to WMO statistics from 1970-2019 However, based on the data, death tolls have fallen dramatically. This development is thanks to improvements in...
Asia-Pacific accounts for $ 22bn CAT losses in H122, Insured losses at $ 8bn:Munich Re
Floods, earthquakes and storms caused overall global losses of some US$ 65bn compared with US$ 105bn in the loss-heavy previous year. At around US$ 34bn, insured losses were roughly in line with previous years Globally, some 4,300 people lost their lives in natural...
Global CAT insured losses at $39 billion in H1 2022:Aon
Steve Bowen, managing director and head of Catastrophe Insight for Aon’s Impact Forecasting team, said: “The continued effects of La Niña conditions, amplified by climate change’s influence on global weather patterns, not only increased volatility and intensified many...
26.66 million people affected by floods in 2020; 1,365 lives lost: Union minister Shekhawat
Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said Rs 21,190 crore of total damage of crops, houses and public utilities has been recorded in 2020 New Delhi: As many as 26.66 million people were affected by floods in the country...