Biodiversity and ecosystems are crucial for understanding how the world's natural capital is linked to financial markets. This CEO Briefing underscores the critical natural capital that underpins our economic activity and financial capital. As the finance sector we need to ensure that we operationalise this thinking in the management of investment and lending activities.

New Delhi: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority has decided to frame guidelines for allowing insurance cover for nuclear accidents.

The agency is awaiting the the nuclear liability law to provide framework for the proposed rules.

The government is planning to implement livestock insurance scheme in 14 districts of the State to support the farmers in insuring the cattle.

According to a press release, National Insurance Company Ltd, divisional office, in front of Central Market, Mangalore will provide the insurance facility for livestock. The aim is to insure 10,000 cattle in Dakshina Kannada district.

In a remote village of district Chamoli, Uttarakhand, farmer Hari Singh no longer needs to travel to the distant bank branch.

With the aim to understand, promote and highlight the importance of financial inclusion of Scheduled castes, Scheduled tribes and religious minorities, Sa-Dhan in collaboration with UNDP conducted an interface between government representatives, academicians, journalists, practitioners and other stakeholders.

This briefing explores the current debates around insurance mechanisms to assess how disaster insurance supports community responses to climate change, and calls for priority to be given to community-based disaster risk reduction.

Government Support to Agricultural Insurance informs public and private decision makers involved in agricultural insurance about recent developments, with a particular focus on middle- and low-income countries.

Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as drought or floods can have a devastating impact on food security as well as the social and economic development of rural households. In recent years, an increasing number of initiatives have tested weather index-based insurance to help manage these risks in agriculture.

Indu Bhan

New Delhi: To ensure all victims of motor accidents get compensated, the Supreme Court has suggested levy of cess on petrol and diesel sold across the country besides collection of one-time third party insurance premium on every vehicle sold.

This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks.
The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social
protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people;

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