by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life
The heatwave is also acting as a lid, trapping atmospheric pollutants, including particulate matter, resulting in a degradation of air quality and adverse health effects, particularly to vulnerable people, explained Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at WMO’s Global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
In the coming years, sea level rise, more intense storm surge and jack-up tropical storms will visit many of the world’s nearly 3,800 ports. Most of those ports are coastal; About a third are located in tropical bands vulnerable to the most powerful effects of climate...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2022 | Indian News, Non-Life, Regulation, Technology
Before each departure, an aircraft is checked and certified by an aircraft maintenance engineer (AME). The DGCA has now issued guidelines for airlines on the deployment of AME personnel and directed them to comply by July 28. “It is also seen that airlines are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation
AIA Group Ltd., Prudential Plc, Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. and Zurich Insurance Group AG are among the international insurers with ventures in the Southeast Asian nation Overseas insurance companies were allowed to hold a maximum 70% in local firms, but it was mostly...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Much of Europe is baking in a heatwave that has pushed temperatures into the mid-40s Celsius (over 110 Fahrenheit) in some regions, with wildfires raging across tinder-dry countryside in Portugal, Spain and France. Britain’s government triggered a...