by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Nearly 50 lakh beneficiaries have been inoculated under the countrywide Covid-19 vaccination exercise, while India's total active cases have dropped to 1.51 lakh, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. India's total active cases continues to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: With its 1.3 billion population, India has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections — more than 10.8 million — but new cases and deaths have fallen sharply in recent weeks. This week, new daily infections were the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
SEOUL: South Korea unveiled a 48.5 trillion won ($43.2 billion) plan to build the world’s largest wind power plant by 2030 as part of efforts to foster an environmentally-friendly recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is a major component of President...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 6, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Exxon Mobil Corp has created a division to commercialize its technology that helps reduce carbon emissions, as the U.S. oil major looks to step up efforts against climate change amid rising pressure from investors and activists. The move comes as Exxon looks to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 5, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Mumbai: Private non-life firm ICICI Lombard on Friday said it has received approval from international financial services centre (IFSC) to open an offshore insurance office in Gift City in Gandhinagar, making it the first private general insurer to do so. The offshore...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Global commercial insurance pricing increased 22% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Marsh's quarterly Global Insurance Market Index, a proprietary measure of global commercial insurance premium pricing change at renewal, representing the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 5, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
NEW YORK: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reappointed former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as his special envoy on climate ambition and solutions on Friday “to mobilize stronger and more ambitious climate action” ahead of a global summit in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 5, 2021 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management
By Megan Rowling Governments have made progress on understanding how people are forced from their homes by climate stresses and on preventing some of the worst impacts – but there is still far to go before communities are properly protected, top officials said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks Covid-19’s impact on trade. Sign up here, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis on the pandemic.MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it lost a limited number of empty...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 5, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Risk Management
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Balasore will get the country's first thunderstorm research testbed, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said. The objective of setting up the thunderstorm testbed is to minimalise human fatalities and loss of...
