All physical risk articles
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NewsGlobal freeze map will help with business continuity
Freeze risk regularly impacts equipment and infrastructure which is often hidden and enclosed within a building
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AIIB pledges climate-resilient infrastructure investments
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has joined the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment
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Climate risks could undermine viability of world’s key waterways
Rising physical climate risks, such as coastal inundation and extreme heat and wind, could impact key shipping lanes
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Extreme climate losses 30x more likely at exposed premises
Research from FM Global shines a light on the vulnerability of commercial properties which lack resilience
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Special report: Climate change 2022
Why risk professionals are the ideal people to make sense of the complexities surrounding climate change
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APAC region vital to achieving disaster risk reduction targets
The global battle to reduce disaster losses by 2030 will be won or lost in Asia-Pacific, according to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Who pays for ESG?
There are massive upfront costs in getting your organisation ESG-ready. So who pays?
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Sri Lanka riot claims to exceed $3m
Widespread riots broke out in Sri Lanka following an attack on anti-government protests in Colombo on 9 May
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Insuring the transition to net zero
Why insurers have a critical role to play in the shift away from fossil fuels
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Asian catastrophe losses hit $72 billion in 2021
Insurance covered just nine percent of losses as physical damage costs continue to rise - Aon
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Tonga eruption highlights global telecom vulnerabilities
Catastrophe highlights fragility of the global undersea cable network and how quickly it can go offline
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Promoting risk engineering as part of a healthy risk culture
While nat cats cannot be avoided, risk engineering plays an important role in identifying and mitigating the potential damages arising
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CROSS urges attention to risk management
Engineers must consider risk management at a “fundamental level” following structural collapses and tragic building fires
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2021 catastrophe claims tally reaches $112 billion
Total economic losses from natural and manmade catastrophes reached $259 billion, up by 20%
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Should insurers lead the climate march?
If the politicians won’t go to battle against climate change, maybe insurers have the power to drive behavioural change
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Australian properties lack resilience to tropical cyclones
Tropical storms to become more severe as the climate changes; ICA calls for stronger building codes and retrofitting programs
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Asia to power global construction boom
The switch to more sustainable buildings and infrastructure and adoption of modern building methods will transform the risk landscape, finds AGCS
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Making good on a promise
It is in how they manage blindsiding losses that the risk managers prove their mettle
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The next wave of climate litigation
Nigel Brook explains why climate litigation risk needs to be on every corporate risk manager’s radar
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COP26: Global resilience index launches
GRII will help sectors across the global economy quantify the value of building climate resilience, and the costs of doing nothing
