by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 21, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
“Many of 2023’s events are consistent with projected future changes in a warmer world, showing the challenges that are to come, while some were a surprise, suggesting there is still more to learn about what’s potentially around the corner,”...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 8, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
UNICEF estimates that 76 per cent of children under 18 in the region – 460 million – are exposed to extreme high temperatures where 83 or more days in a year exceed 35° Celsius UN News: Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already exposed to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
The WMO has said the extreme weather looks likely to become the “new normal,” underlining the increasing urgency of cutting fossil fuel emissions. The call for action on global warming comes as some European Union nations push back against the pace of the energy...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 17, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life
This extreme heat resulted in widespread hospitalisations, infrastructure damage, wildfires, and school closures. The exact number of fatalities is currently unknown New Delhi: Human-caused climate change made April’s record-breaking heatwave in Bangladesh, India,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 22, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
”Heatwaves in the 2022 pre-monsoon season in India and Pakistan caused a decline in crop yields. This, combined with the banning of wheat exports and restrictions on rice exports in India after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, has threatened the...
