Sentences with phrase «catastrophe risks»

RMS models and software help evaluate and manage catastrophe risks throughout the world, promoting resilient societies and a sustainable global economy.

In his current role as director at Risk Management Solutions -LRB-» the world's leading provider of products and services for the quantification and management of catastrophe risks» for the insurance industry), Bob Ward still writes letters to «deniers» on behalf of scientists — most recently to Martin Durkin, producer of The Great Global Warming Swindle (2).

Humans are developing technologies and means to improve lives while reducing environmental impacts even as humanity is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and worsening climate catastrophe risks and impacts.

Berky is almost always willing to take on catastrophe risks, if they are more than adequately compensated.

I had thought of investing in OJSC Pharmstandard (mentioned by Francis Chou in one of his most recent annual reports), but decided that the individual corporate governance catastrophe risk was just too much for me to stand and that the ETF is comparatively just as cheap.

For one, it is hard to get around the fraud catastrophe risk prevalent at most Russian companies.

The approach is a simplified catastrophe risk assessment, to calculate the direct costs of storm surges under scenarios of sea level rise, coupled to an economic input — output (IO) model.

Similarly, for the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Facility was set up in 2013 to provide disaster risk assessment tools and practical technical and financial applications to reduce and mitigate countries» vulnerability to natural disasters.

Climate change could significantly increase the risk of hurricanes and storms in the Caribbean and threaten future development in the region, concludes a new study released by the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF).

«The implications of the level of ocean warming that already has been attained include the need to reassess the way we quantify and manage today's catastrophe risk; specifically, after moving away from historical averages, the need to define a «new normal» which is itself highly uncertain.»

If our thesis is correct, it will be the people of Milwaukee, at the bottom end of the risk list on SustainLaine's catastrophe risk ranking, who will again greet climate change refugees.

The Economic Survey 2009 - 10 has pitched for introducing catastrophe risk insurance in capital market and also pointed...

Not exact matches

«It's not the run - of - the - mill loss you should be thinking about, but the home run, out - of - the - park catastrophe,» says David Young, a former insurance broker and risk manager now advising at the Small Business Development Center in Seattle.

«Strategies to manage risk are not guarantees against catastrophes,» said Cortazzo.

But that long history of data on past catastrophes does not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk - rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.

The insurance industry now uses sophisticated catastrophe modeling for risk assessment when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, but that wasn't the case until 11 insurance companies went bankrupt after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Jain, a native of India who joined Berkshire in 1986, runs the reinsurance operations, providing coverage against major catastrophes and unusual risks.

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

Catastrophe bonds, known in the insurance industry as «cat» bonds, are structured securities that allow reinsurers to transfer their own risks to capital - market investors.

For Toccarra Thomas, a small - business owner and graduate student in Knoxville, Tennessee, putting together that kind of generous emergency fund wasn't just about avoiding catastrophe, it was also about freeing herself up to seize a high - risk, high - reward opportunity.

«We do know, however, that the risk increases over time because of growth in both the number and value of structures located in catastrophe - vulnerable areas.»

«They reinstated their cover and have group risk and catastrophe cover which really caps the exposure, with the risks transferred to their reinsurance entity Equator Re,» said S&P global ratings director of insurance ratings Craig Bennett.

After months when both the Greeks and the Europeans have surprised negatively, let us hope that beginning Sunday night, the risk of catastrophe will concentrate minds and lead to positive surprises.

Over the years, the company expanded to encompass all of Michigan and diversified into risk management, catastrophe adjusting, medical review and case management to reflect the diverse services for the insurance and risk industry.

In the US, strict and costly regulations in the aftermath of the financial crisis were applied with a broad brush, to large financial institutions capable of creating systemic catastrophe and to community banks with risks tied only to the communities they faithfully serve.

«They are facing a humanitarian catastrophe and a real risk of genocide.

Suppose we can't make the pie any bigger without risking environmental catastrophe?

There are risks related to ecological catastrophes (the desertification, the depletion of the Ozone layer, the deforestation, the Greenhouse effect).

Besides, better to move in to avert catastrophe, than risk massive human misery, from beating a brainless drum of war.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls told the Independent newspaper he felt 2012 will be «the most dangerous year in my life», predicting that the short - term attitude of European leaders risked a «massive catastrophe» on the continent.

You should give her a good grade if your most - disliked candidate has a strong chance to win (to avoid a catastrophe), and a bad grade if your most - liked candidate has a strong chance to win (to avoid rivalry, i.e. risking a victory of your candidate 2 whereas your candidate 1 could win).

To allow it to risk the catastrophe it will surely face, if you lead us into the General Election campaign, would be a betrayal of my members, constituents and the wider country.

One cabinet member says that Corbyn's leadership «would drag the overall debate to the left and the tiny risk of his victory would be a catastrophe for Britain».

In a paper published this month in the journal PLoS Biology, Matthews and his co-authors argue that investment and management decisions risk exacerbating climate - initiated changes, which could lead to economic catastrophes.

«It is time to move on from the fake debate over whether climate change is real or poses a risk, and onto the worthy debate about what actions we must take to avoid a climate catastrophe,» he said in an email.

Invoking Mother Nature risked leaving the impression that the long history of land - making and building in the floodplain had little to do with the catastrophe.

You have warned that the risk of a tornado - caused catastrophe in this country is underestimated, or even overlooked altogether.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

Discussing a series of possible catastrophes, natural and human - caused, the author considers what we ought to worry about, what we can dismiss, and how we might consider reducing the most dangerous risks.

Twenty years after such a release, methane is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas (after 100 years it remains 25 times more potent than CO2), so if the methane is released, the planet risks a runaway climate catastrophe.

The new study published in Scientific Reports, has shown that the tiny creatures, will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes, and be around for at least 10 billion years — far longer than the human race.

Some scientists have said that there could be tremendous risks involved with CCS: The stored carbon dioxide could explosively leak into the atmosphere through fissures in the earth or be placed at risk by terrorism, creating a climate catastrophe.

So you have to say, «I'm going to do this procedure with a 1 percent risk of catastrophe to find the 3 percent I know I can help a little.»

«An expert on planetary impacts and global catastrophes, Boslough's work on airbursts challenged the conventional view of asteroid collision risk and is now widely accepted by the scientific community.

AIDS is increasingly affecting women; and marriage — in which there can be frequent episodes of male violence and sex with multiple partners — has become a serious and significant risk factor for acquiring HIV.13 In Uganda, for all its relative progress, rape and domestic abuse have been important factors in sustaining the epidemic.14 Is it too much to hope that the searing catastrophe of AIDS may have put before women and men an issue that they can use to confront male violence, exploitation, and stigma?

Survivors of the Chernobyl catastrophe in the former Soviet Union, especially children and adolescents, had a 5 - 6 fold increased risk of thyroid cancer after the accident.

But short of that unlikely occurrence, centralizing this much power in a single place creates far more risk of catastrophe than allowing 50 states to muddle along their more diverse paths.

Aims to provide capital growth and income by investing in securities that are related to insurance risks (known as insurance - linked securities), mainly in catastrophe or «cat» bonds.»

With less debt, you save money on interest charges and reduce your risk of financial catastrophe if your income is disrupted and you are unable to make payments.

This has the countervailing advantage for investors, that after a major catastrophe, the brokers will always do well, because rates rise, and the brokers have no risk of getting tagged for claims.