Escalating Cost of Natural Disasters Could Hit “One Trillion Dollar Year” Mark
Nairobi
New kinds of insurance and financing are urgently needed in developing countries to assist them in adapting to current and future climate change, a new report says.
Experts-- members of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)-- are warning that losses from extreme weather events linked to climate change are doubling every 12 years.
Over the next three to four decades the world could witness a year in which losses from droughts, storms surges, hurricanes and floods hit one trillion dollars.
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=485&ArticleID=5422&l=en
New forms of insurance against ravages of climate change needed in poor nations – UN
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20594&Cr=climate&Cr1=
The Insurance Industry: Environmental Dangers May Soon Be Uninsurable,
by Christiane Martens
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout3.php&id=13&blz=1
Please also see:
2006 Reuters-IUCN Environmental Media Award goes to Marina Walker Guevara for “The children of lead”
USD 5,000 prize presented today at the awards ceremony, held at the UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/11/14_awards.htm
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RE-LAUNCHES HIGH DEMAND WEBSITE
Redesigned site celebrates sustainable food movement through enhanced educational tools, award-winning advocacy films
http://www.sustainabletable.org/media/docs/SustainableTable/STwebrelaunchrelease.html
Multi-Volume U.N. Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2804&blz=1
Climate Change: Greenland Antarctica, by Israel Rafalovich
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2801&blz=1
Israel Rafalovich on European Union Environmental Plans
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2800&blz=1
Nairobi
New kinds of insurance and financing are urgently needed in developing countries to assist them in adapting to current and future climate change, a new report says.
Experts-- members of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)-- are warning that losses from extreme weather events linked to climate change are doubling every 12 years.
Over the next three to four decades the world could witness a year in which losses from droughts, storms surges, hurricanes and floods hit one trillion dollars.
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=485&ArticleID=5422&l=en
New forms of insurance against ravages of climate change needed in poor nations – UN
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20594&Cr=climate&Cr1=
The Insurance Industry: Environmental Dangers May Soon Be Uninsurable,
by Christiane Martens
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout3.php&id=13&blz=1
Please also see:
2006 Reuters-IUCN Environmental Media Award goes to Marina Walker Guevara for “The children of lead”
USD 5,000 prize presented today at the awards ceremony, held at the UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/11/14_awards.htm
SUSTAINABLE TABLE, WWW.SUSTAINABLETABLE.ORG,
RE-LAUNCHES HIGH DEMAND WEBSITE
Redesigned site celebrates sustainable food movement through enhanced educational tools, award-winning advocacy films
http://www.sustainabletable.org/media/docs/SustainableTable/STwebrelaunchrelease.html
Multi-Volume U.N. Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2804&blz=1
Climate Change: Greenland Antarctica, by Israel Rafalovich
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2801&blz=1
Israel Rafalovich on European Union Environmental Plans
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2800&blz=1