Japan's MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings will offer a service to analyse the risks climate change pose to companies.
The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) has called for the adoption of a comprehensive governance framework in managing natural disasters and ramifications of climate change and addressing the potential impact.
The Congress Party has demanded that the government declare locust attacks in the country as a natural disaster and farmers be given compensation under the crop insurance scheme.
The scale of natural disasters in Africa has prompted several organisations to hold a series of training courses on environmental risk insurance and pool their resources to protect vulnerable populations against disasters.
Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo has questioned the safety of the massive Three Gorges Dam, warning that it could collapse at any moment, as torrential rains pounded the region.
China Life Insurance and State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) will jointly establish a clean energy fund of about CNY8bn ($1.1bn).
The average temperature over India is projected to rise by approximately 4.4°C relative to the recent past (1976-2005 average) by the end of this century, in the worst-case scenario, says the first-ever climate change assessment report for India.
The German government is assuming premium payments of around EUR19m ($21m) for the drought insurance offered by the African Risk Capacity (ARC), in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mainland China regulators should develop unified guidelines and converge on a set of the most material indicators that companies must disclose about ESG practices and policies, according to a report published by the Ping An Digital Economic Research Centre.
China will conduct its first national survey on natural disaster risks to better prepare itself for potential disasters, according to a State Council circular