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Maharshtra shuts malls, cinemas as new variant spreads
Scientists fear Delta Plus could trigger another wave of infections as India recovers from the second wave. Many states, including Maharashtra, have been easing lockdown rules imposed in April.
Global Covid-19 caseload tops 179.9 mn; deaths surge to more than 3.89 mn
In its latest update on Friday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 179,928,730 and 3,898,531, respectively.
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 33,590,360 and 603,149, respectively, according to the CSSE.
In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 30,082,778 cases.
Price Charles launches new partnership with global insurance industry to tackle climate change
To support the rapid growth of green projects and innovation, the SMI Insurance Task Force will develop a framework to help unlock the more than $30 trillion in assets under management, increasingly directing capital towards investments that drive climate-positive outcomes in both developed and developing nations.
Japan insurers struggle to pinpoint climate change cost estimates
Calculating climate costs is no easy task even for Japanese insurers, armed with sophisticated models to predict the course and intensity of typhoons, and the damage they could cause.
Explainer: Climate change and financial disclosure – what’s at stake?
Global regulators are working towards creating a common set of guidelines for assessing climate-related financial risks.
The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors the global financial system, created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which released in 2017 recommendations on climate risk disclosure.
A network of central banks also released climate-change scenarios and guides for measuring risks, while the U.N. Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) last year published methods insurers can use to disclose climate risks.
UK Court of Appeal confirms Deliveroo riders are self employed
Employment models across the “gig economy” have been challenged in courts around the world by unions and workers.
Chaucer launches their new Belt & Road Consortium at Lloyd’s
Chaucer will lead and manage the Consortium, which will focus on Political Violence Risk protection for assets under construction or operation and financed through the Belt & Road investment initiative, with support from other leading Lloyd’s syndicates.
Swiss Re sees rising premium trend intact
In contract renewals in April, Swiss Re increased premium volume in property and casualty insurance by a fifth and achieved a 4% price increase. Munich Re underwrote 17% more business, with prices rising by an average of 2.4%.
Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat becomes the world’s most expensive city for foreign workers:Mercer Survey
Tokyo and Zurich each dropped one spot from third and fourth respectively to fourth and fifth positions, and Shanghai ranked sixth, up one place from last year. Singapore moved from fifth place to seventh.
Mumbai (78) is India’s most expensive city but dropped 18 places in this list.
India’s digital database for farmers stirs fears about privacy, exclusion
AgriStack will create “a unified platform for farmers to provide them end to end services across the agriculture food value chain,” authorities have said, amid a broader push to digitise data in India, from land titles to medical records. But the project is being rolled out without consultations with farmers, and with no legal framework to protect their personal data, according to more than 50 farmers’ groups and digital rights organisations that have criticised the proposal.