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Shared Value founder heads up regional alliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... dealing with climate change. How can they future-proof assets and deliver services to communities with coastal hazards, flooding and other climate-related events? There seems to be a once-in-100-year-event happening consistently. "Local councils are ...

Canberra targets natural disaster insurance gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... billion worth of damage. This comes as seven people have been reported missing in Western Australia amid severe storms and flooding. Insurance costs are rising globally due to increased natural hazard events, increases in the cost of rebuilding post-disaster ...

Queensland to boost clean economy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... state's positive momentum and will pile more climate risks and costs onto communities who are still reeling from flooding rains, deadly bushfires and destructive storms," Rayner said. WWF Australia also signalled its support. CEO Dermot O'Gorman ...

Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... perspective, if you're developing a new solar farm, you don't want it to be built in a place that's susceptible to flooding, you need it to be resilient to all the climate hazards it's going to face. You can't put these things in ...

Treasury issues statement on systemic climate risk to government bonds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... that global warming and climate change brings risks of more frequent and more intense bushfires, storm surges, coastal flooding, inland flooding, cyclones, droughts and other extreme weather events. "To my mind, it seems likely that such events will ...

Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... of climate change? A: Physical risk is really challenging because it happens on a very localised basis. For example, Flooding is happening one side of the street, but not the other. We know a certain amount is already baked in, but there's a lot ...

Aussie farmers call for climate courage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's food security hangs in the balance with climate change exacerbating extreme drought, flooding and other impacts which harm the country's ability to sustain food production, but climate change also presents opportunities for investment in ...

Fink counts the cost of "easy money" in annual letter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... California or Florida, in Pakistan, across Europe and Australia, and in many other places around the world. "There's more flooding, more wildfires, and more intense storms. In fact, it's hard to find a part of our ecology - or our economy - that's not ...

FM Global to provide climate resilience discount

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... staff go to clients' locations to identify risks and hazards that might pertain to things like wind speed, rainfall, flooding, bushfire. "If a client is in a flood zone and there are things they can do to be more resilient to flooding, such as the ...

Australia vulnerable but resilient on climate risk: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... identify opportunities through these lenses. "There is a lot of information around climate risk exposures, like exposure to flooding, rainfall, windstorm, natural catastrophic events, and that forms the basis for the climate risk exposure," said Greg ...
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