Disasters are increasingly expensive and their impacts are severely under-estimated says The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2025.
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On May 7 2025, over 50 leaders from science, policy, and finance convened in Washington, DC, for a high-level workshop titled From Insights to Impact, aimed at refining the Resilience Science Must-Knows.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final ‘Guidelines on the management of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks’.
In 2024, severe floods in Europe and the UAE resulted in estimated insured losses of close to USD 13 billion to date. It was the third-costliest year for this threat globally and the second costliest for Europe.
The International SOS Foundation has published ‘Extreme Weather: Health Impacts on the Global Workforce’, which provides the results of research into the business disruptions and health challenges posed by extreme weather.
To determine how effective investments in flood adaptation measures can be, it is important to quantify their financial benefits. Swiss Re Institute has carried out a study comparing economic benefits and cost ratios of selected flood adaptation measures.
Businesses and other organizations are not prepared for weather-related disasters, with out-of-date business continuity plans failing to reflect the frequency of disruption of climate-related events.
44 leading experts on ocean circulation have written an Open Letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the very real risks of severe impacts from a warming climate induced change to the circulation of the AMOC (the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation).
The water crisis puts at risk more than half of the world’s food production by 2050. It also threatens an 8% loss of GDP in countries around the world on average by 2050, with as much as a 15% loss in lower-income countries, and even larger economic consequences beyond.
China, India and the US have been rated as facing the highest level of water security challenges alongside relatively limited progress towards solutions in a new analysis published by BSI and Waterwise.