Losses to insurers from natural disasters nearly doubled this year to just below $30 billion globally after an unusually quiet 2006, a leading reinsurer said, from winter storms in Europe, flooding in Britain and wildfires in the U.S.
Munich Re also warned that climate change could mean a growing number of weather-related catastrophes in comingย years.
The regulatorโs findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.
With the COP30 climate talks about to open in Brazil, why are agencies failing to reckon with their role in the crisis?
Tax records reveal that the billionaireโs foundation has donated for years to Lomborgโs Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
