The first guide for the insurance industry to protect world heritage sites was introduced at an event by UN Environment's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) earlier this week in Brazil which was attended by prominent insurers, investors and banks.
Switzerland's glaciers have lost one-tenth of their volume in the past five years alone - a melting rate unmatched in observations stretching back more than a century.
Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) has approved the establishment of the Regional Centre for Sustainable Finance to accelerate the shift to a sustainable and green economy.
Floods, windstorms and earthquakes. It's hard to predict the exact moment they will strike, but with traditional data-based insights powered by new business intelligence technologies, business leaders are becoming better equipped to plan where to locate their next facility and prevent losses from the impact of natural catastrophes.
Four Indian coastal cities-Kolkata, Mumbai, Surat and Chennai-will be severely threatened by rising sea levels, says a UN body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its "Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate" released last month.
Japan is expected to encounter yet another category 5 Super Typhoon named Hagabis on Saturday morning (12 October). The track of Hagabis is very similar to that of Typhoon Faxai which just made landfall last month and is estimated to incur estimated insured losses of $5bn to $9bn, according to RMS.
The Asia Pacific is home to more than 50 volcanoes that may be candidates to produce a VEI 7 eruption in future millennia, according to a report by Aon, a global firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions.
Real and meaningful change to the issue of insurance affordability in northern Australia can only be brought about by focusing on the root causes rather than the manifestation, says the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).
Less than half of people in the Middle East think that they or their country could be doing more on climate change, according to a poll by YouGov.
A newly launched research project is combining a number of very different solutions into one climate-smart bundle, helping smallholders increase their resilience to disasters and improve their opportunities for recovery.