Risk Management Association of India
Global body dedicated to education, research and development on Risk Management
The global climate crisis is increasingly being recognised as a gender issue, with women facing higher risks and lower representation in decision-making processes, according to recent insights. According to the report, women are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate Read More …
Authorities have announced plans to begin major flood risk management work in 2027, aiming to strengthen infrastructure and reduce the impact of flooding on communities and local economies. According to the report, the project is designed to address recurring flood Read More …
Efforts to build disaster resilience and climate adaptation must increasingly address gender-based violence (GBV), as highlighted in recent findings focused on India’s development goals for 2030. The report underscores that disasters and climate-related risks often disproportionately impact women and vulnerable Read More …
Finance and disaster management ministers from G20 nations have reiterated the urgent need to strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR) frameworks, calling for wider use of innovative risk financing tools such as parametric insurance and catastrophe bonds to address escalating climate Read More …
A new article on PreventionWeb underscores the urgent call by global disaster risk reduction experts to shift the focus from reactive disaster relief to proactive resilience funding. Titled “Fund resilience, not disasters: Why risk reduction is the future of insurability,” Read More …
Insurance policies targeted at losses occasioned by climate risks such as drought, flooding and extreme heat present the next growth opportunity for Kenya’s under-performing insurance sector, experts say. Industry insiders say the industry is looking at developing products that include Read More …
Every business faces two global systemic risks: cybersecurity and climate change. Learn how to integrate these two areas of risk management for greater business resilience. Of all risks facing organizations today, those related to cybersecurity and the environment carry the Read More …
Risk is “the potential for consequences where the outcome is uncertain and something of value is at stake” (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). It has distinguishable elements including a hazard, exposure, vulnerability, response options, values, magnitude, likelihood, and temporal characteristics, and Read More …
As the world copes with the repercussions of legacy emissions, there is growing pressure to achieve climate-compatible growth. Fiscal and monetary authorities will now have to be cognisant of the feedback from climate change to the economy and suitably adapt Read More …
A key finding in the latest IPCC climate report has been widely misinterpreted, according to scientists involved in the study. In the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases are projected to peak “at the latest before 2025”. This implies that Read More …