by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 24, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Wealth Management/ Philanthropy
Catastrophe bonds are generally issued by insurers looking to pass a chunk of their risk over to capital markets. Issuance has picked up lately, with factors including climate change, population density and inflation adding to the potential losses that insurers face....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 2, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Risk Management
Such extreme heat has wide-ranging consequences on public health, electricity, water and the economy.Vimal Mishra, Vikram Sarabhai Chair Professor, Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar New Delhi: Sweltering heatwave in north India that have caused...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 1, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Regulation, Technology
The transition to clean energy requires enormous public investment in electricity generation and distribution, in addition to the far larger expense of mitigating the damage caused by rising temperatures. Further delay will increase the public and private costs more...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 23, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The proceeding is Asia’s first such climate-related litigation, the plaintiffs said, which includes four petitions by children and infants among others dating from 2020, as well as one from a foetus at the time, nicknamed Woodpecker. South Korea’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, whose pension fund and insurer signatories manage $9.5 trillion in assets, said the new Target-Setting Protocol was its most ambitious yet to help halve emissions by 2030 and get to net-zero emissions by mid-century The world’s...
