Climate Risks

There can be no shortcuts in building flood resilience

Jonathan Crook Managing Director of leading real time risk management software platform provider Balkerne explains why the Government’s pledge to maintain the spending on UK’s flood defences in this week’s spending review is good news but the industry has a part to play

Testing plea as world disconnection grows

COVID-19 has seen the connectivity of the world’s leading cities fall dramatically amid fears that it will take years to return to anywhere near pre-pandemic levels

BI judgement leaves clarity “some way from certain”

Australian insurers have been left with a range of unanswered questions following the judgement in the country’s Business interruption insurance test case

Commuters happy to pay for sustainable transport

Commuters across Europe have said they would be willing to pay more to use climate friendly modes of transport according to new research

Campaigners call for AIA to breathe life into climate pledge

Climate campaigners have turned their sights on one of Asia’s biggest life companies as they seek to further the campaign to halt the underwriting or investment in coal operations

COVID has not impacted global warming

While the global lockdown due to COVID has reduced the level of the carbon produced this year it has not halted the move to global warming, according to a new report