Climate

Triple-I Blog | Outdated Building Codes Exacerbate Climate Risk – Go Health Pro

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Triple-I Blog | Outdated Building Codes Exacerbate Climate Risk – Go Health Pro

By Lewis Nibbelin, Contributing Writer, Triple-I Natural catastrophe perils’ rising frequency and severity may be impossible to fully abate, but Nationwide Property & Casualty Insurance Co. President and CEO Mark Berven believes modern building codes could dramatically reduce their costly destructiveness. In a recent article for PropertyCasualty360, Berven wrote that inconsistent building codes create alarming … Read more

Florida Local Government Climate Policy: The State of the State – Go Health Pro

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Florida Local Government Climate Policy: The State of the State – Go Health Pro

It is important to note that we did not look behind the selected keywords to determine their substantive impact.  However, we did score them based on where the keywords fell in the plans, focusing on their relevance to actionable policy and how often the keywords occurred.  In addition, despite some statutory requirements, not all comprehensive … Read more

SCOR provides funding to CRUCIAL climate prediction market initiative – Go Health Pro

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SCOR provides funding to CRUCIAL climate prediction market initiative – Go Health Pro

Through its corporate foundation, France-headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR is backing a climate prediction market initiative named CRUCIAL (The Climate Risk and Uncertainty Collective Intelligence Laboratory) that looks to produce collective expert forecasts of climate-related risks.The initiative is being led by Lancaster University Management School and, through the use of prediction markets, it aims to … Read more

Stand-off over UN climate summit host country for 2026 – Go Health Pro

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Stand-off over UN climate summit host country for 2026 – Go Health Pro

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A stand-off over the right to host the 2026 UN climate talks has cast a cloud over the close of the COP29 summit in Baku. Australia and Turkey have spent nearly two years bidding to … Read more

How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

It was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an important body of case law and guidance has developed that shows clearly how, in the right factual scenario, people could … Read more