by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 9, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
“Australia is becoming a harder country to live in because of these natural disasters,” Morrison told reporters on Wednesday, adding that the world was dealing with “a different climate to the one we were dealing with before” Prime minister Scott Morrison Australia’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
By one estimate, as many as 40 million people in South Asia may be forced to move over the next 30 years because of a lack of water, crop failure, storm surges and other disasters No nation offers asylum or other legal protections to people displaced specifically...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 1, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
While governments need to drastically curb their emissions to prevent runaway global warming, they can also work to limit suffering by adapting to the conditions of a warmer world, the report says. That will take a lot of money – to finance new technologies and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy
“The growth in climate impacts is far outpacing our efforts to adapt to them,” UNEP chief Inger Andersen warned this month. She urged nations, cities, businesses and individuals to turn adaptation efforts “into a sprint”. BARCELONA: From...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 23, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
“Wildfires are made worse by climate change through increased drought, high air temperatures, low relative humidity, lightning, and strong winds resulting in hotter, drier, and longer fire seasons,” UNEP said UN: Wildfires are projected to rise by 50 per cent by the...