by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 7, 2026 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management
“Nearly every Australian capital city has a dangerous mix of preconditions for a catastrophic fire like LA — the possibility of extreme dry periods, severe winds, steep slopes, bushland near homes and a history of destructive fires,” said Greg Mullins, a former New...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 27, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
“These disasters are not natural — they are the predictable result of continued fossil fuel expansion and political delay,” said Emeritus Professor Joanna Haigh, at Imperial College London New Delhi:Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and storms cost the world...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 21, 2025 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
More than $5 billion of cat bonds with some level of exposure to wildfire risk were issued by insurers and sold to investors this year, according to Artemis, a specialist in insurance-linked securities that tracks market trends. That’s more than twice the level in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 19, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Fire activity has surged in recent weeks as another blast of unseasonable heat sapped the last moisture from Europe’s fields and forests, leaving them primed to ignite. Deadly, wind-whipped blazes have flared from Portugal and Spain to Greece and Albania. Researchers...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
The result “gives us confidence in our 2025 targets despite a challenging environment,” Chief Executive Officer Andreas Bergersaid in a statement on Friday Swiss Re AG’s profit rose in the first quarter as losses from the California wildfires were offset by positive...
