New Delhi After the deadly earthquake and a following tsunami in Japan caused a damage of $309 billion, India has started work on rules that will make it mandatory for at least 13 major ports to have insurance.
With a view to giving social security to fishermen engaged in fish farming, accidental insurance is being done for them and their families. A total 1 lakh 98 thousand 122 fishermen and family members have been covered under group insurance scheme.
This paper, which was developed in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is aimed at proposing the improvement of clean development mechanism (CDM) in the cement sector based on the experience through the implementation of capacity building while describing the recent information and identifying issues and challenges in India's cement sector through IGES CDM capacity-bui
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Work on a model fishing village scheme started with an outlay of Rs.200 crore in the current financial year will be completed within five years, Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has said.
In his budget speech in the Assembly on Thursday, Dr.
Insurers are struggling to assess the risks from climate change, industry officials say, with the floods in Australia and Brazil highlighting the potential losses from greater extremes of weather.
Scientists say a warmer world will cause more intense drought, floods, cyclones as well as rising sea levels and the insurance industry says the number of weather-related disasters has already soared
This study focuses on the information needs of the financial sector with respect to direct physical risks of climate change impacts. Clearly, there are many issues for the sector relating to mitigation
(i.e. the control of greenhouse gas emissions). Mitigation continues to be the top priority. However, that is not the subject of this study.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential role of Index-based Disaster Insurance as a tool for climate change adaptation and social protection in developing countries. The paper will first provide an overview of recently piloted micro policies and macro policies.
As in previous years, the Global Climate Risk Index 2011 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent available data from 2009 as well as for the period 1990-2009 were taken into account.
