February 4, 2010
The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a guidance note to clarify what publicly traded companies should be disclosing about their climate change related risks effects on business operations. As well as disclosing things like emissions management, companies should now disclose anything to do with the physical impacts of the changing weather. That sounds [...]
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January 27, 2010
Sompo Japan have released a press release to announce the launch of a new insurance product in Thailand to protect against drought. It’s good to see further advances in the weather index based insurance world as they expand to new regions. Although this is again a micro-insurance pilot scheme it’s hoped this could continue as [...]
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