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...“Fire fighting [is] very difficult” on modern car carriers, said Richard Gunn, a casualty lawyer at law firm Reed Smith, who added that ships tended to be built with several decks that were built as low...
...But FT analysis has also concluded that UAE state companies and funds can be linked to almost $200bn in investments around the globe in the year leading up to the COP summit, mostly in green energy....
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...In recent months, both State Farm and Allstate have announced plans to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California....
...Fiscal policy: Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’? Labour markets: UK wages: which sectors are driving up pay?...
...Insurance covered just 60 per cent of the $165bn losses from climate-related disasters in 2022. Governments are still at odds over the future of fossil fuels ahead of the UN climate summit....
...Aims to impose disclosure of sustainability risk on financial institutions, pension funds and insurance companies. Includes all sustainability risk, not only climate but also social and governance....
...Thanks to my RHF the Business Secretary the Global Investment Summit unlocked £30 billion of investment....
...SKW Piesteritz became one of the most high-profile casualties of the surge in gas prices when it shut down completely in August....
...Photographs posted on social media showed a damaged farm vehicle lying on its side next to a large crater. Local media reported the casualties were farm workers....
...At a small rural farm about an hour’s drive from the Zambian capital city of Lusaka in late January, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen stood before a gathering of farmers and told them she understood the...
...It wouldn’t accept insurance or take money from pharmaceutical companies. And it would have its own medical advisory council as an alternative to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...No premiums for insurtech Once high-flying insurance start-ups like Lemonade, Hippo and Root have emerged as the biggest casualties of the broader sell off in tech stocks, the FT’s Ian Smith writes....
...The make-up of BNDES’s portfolio has come under fire, with holdings in companies like meat producer JBS and oil group Petrobras, which have faced heavy criticism on environmental issues....
...It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway. This is a pittance, globally speaking....
...Countries need to apply their fiscal resources to look after refugees and help the poorest from the impact of surging food prices, he argues....
...Ping An is now China’s most valuable publicly listed insurance company. The break-up plan appears to have blindsided Quinn and HSBC’s chair Mark Tucker....
...Francisco Rodrigues da Silva, who farms a tiny sliver of land in Pará state, recounts threats from gunmen — hired by a local soy farmer — to try to scare him off his lands: “I was at home and he was sitting...
...Because land and water are scarce resources and operating them inefficiently isn’t sustainable....
...“Getting an offshore wind farm through the planning process takes just as long today as it did five years ago,” he says....
...For instance teal represented highly vaccinated, low case rate states....
...Nevertheless, leaders made only a brief mention of CMU in their euro-summit statement last month, and the project was absent from commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s “state of the union” address...
...State oil company Saudi Aramco said late on Monday that the attack had caused a fire in a fuel tank but there were no casualties or interruption to oil supplies....
...In a report last year, Greenpeace, the environmental pressure group, said seven out of 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were affected by haze generated by fires in Indonesia...
...But there is a growing realisation that climate action is an investment not a cost — a vital insurance policy against wildfires, floods and other natural disasters....
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