There is a nearly $500 million market to insure satellites, rockets and unmanned space flight, but no legal requirement for an operator such as Blue Origin, which Bezos founded, to insure passengers for injury or death or for space tourists to have life cover, brokers and insurers said.

“We’re not aware of a case where anybody is insured against passenger liability,” Neil Stevens, senior vice president, aviation and space at Marsh, the world’s biggest insurance broker, told Reuters.

Adani’s Bravus pushes ahead with new Australian thermal coal mine

Jun 24, 2021

The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned last month that investors should not fund new oil, gas and coal supply projects if the world wants to reach net zero emissions by mid-century.

But Australia, the world’s top coal exporter, is considered a global laggard in climate change policy as, unlike many other developed countries, its Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not set out a path to zero emissions by 2050.

Delta variant ‘greatest threat’ to US’ COVID-19 efforts: Dr Fauci

Jun 23, 2021

”Similar to the situation in the UK, the Delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the US to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” Fauci told reporters during a virtual news conference here.

However, the “good news” is that the US vaccines are effective against the Delta variant, said Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

World Bank, African Union join forces to expand access to Covid-19 vaccines

Jun 23, 2021

Strive Masiyiwa, African Union special envoy, said the collaboration between the World Bank and African institutions such as the Africa Import Export Bank and the Africa Centre for Disease Control would provide the capacity to vaccinate at least 400 million people or 30% of the total African population.

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