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United Nations Development Arm Starts Disaster Insurance Program
The United Nations Development Programme has launched an initiative to help governments and the private sector in developing countries provide insurance for crises such as pandemics and natural ...
In Ratings Agency First, A.M. Best Joins UN Program for Sustainable Insurance
AM Best became a signatory of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). The insurance industry plays an important role in supporting sustainable ...
Insurers, Pension Funds Pledge Climate Action at U.N. Summit
Insurers and pension funds managing $2.3 trillion pledged on Monday to shift their portfolios away from carbon-heavy industries in the hope of triggering snowballing climate commitments from other ...
Climate Change Talks Scheduled to Begin With Backdrop of Intense Political Divisions
Divisions within Europe and tension between the United States and China pose major challenges to the next round of United Nations talks on climate change. The most important U.N. climate conference ...
‘Unprecedented’ Steps Needed to Avert the Worst Effects of Global Warming, U.N. Warns
Society would have to enact "unprecedented" changes to how it consumes energy, travels and builds to meet a lower global warming target or it risks increases in heat waves, flood-causing storms and ...
Are Current Climate Change Mitigation Targets Feasible? We’ll Find Out on Oct. 8
The world's leading climate scientists this week are preparing the final version of a cornerstone United Nations report to assess whether global temperatures can be kept in check this century to ...
XL Catlin Exec Joins UN Effort to Bring Insurance Concepts Into Global Disaster Planning
XL Catlin Executive Deputy Chairman Stephen Catlin is among the business and political leaders spearheading a global effort to make insurance more sustainable in the face of growing climate risks and ...
Governments Will Gain Free Access to RMS Cat Modeling Technology
RMS said it will give governments free access to its new catastrophe modeling software program through a new initiative with The World Bank and United Nations. A particular goal here is to increase ...