Sentences with phrase «risks of adverse weather»

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«The heightened claims activity in emerging markets is due to a combination of increased frequency of medium sized risk claims in Asia, weather related claims in Latin American and adverse experience in legacy portfolios in Latin America,» QBE said in a statement.

As discussed earlier, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that communities of color, poor communities, and certain other vulnerable populations (like new immigrant communities) are at a higher risk to the adverse effects of extreme weather events.263, 264,239 These vulnerable populations could benefit from urban planning policies that ensure that new buildings, including homes, are constructed to resist extreme weather events.303

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

These driving habits result in an increased risk of a fatal semi-truck accident, especially if the weather or traffic conditions are adverse.