by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Flooding alone is estimated to cause 8.5 million deaths by 2050, posing “the highest acute risk of climate-induced mortality”, according to the study. Droughts, as the second leading cause of climate-related mortality, are forecast to claim 3.2 million...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 7, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy
“Climate change is having an impact. The models that we’ve traditionally used are having to change because the climate is changing. That’s something that I know the Bureau is working hard on, but unfortunately, the reality is that climate change means that we are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life
Insurers continue to have “material exposure” to climate change through investments in fossil fuels and energy-intensive industries, as well as through their underwriting of natural catastrophe risk, the global insurance watchdog said London: Insurers are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 2, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Data, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography
Kenya could lose up to 7.25% of economic output by 2050 if it does not take strong action to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects, the World Bank said on Friday. Like other so-called frontier economies, the East African nation has been suffering from the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2023 | Health, International News, Pandemic, Risk Management
Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention The threat of “a climate change-related disease becoming a pandemic and coming from Africa” was what keeps Jean Kaseya, the director general of the Africa Centres for...
