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Insurer: Disaster losses fell in 2025 but picture still ‘alarming’
AFP, Published on 13/01/2026
» FRANKFURT - Natural disaster losses worldwide dropped sharply to $224 billion in 2025, the reinsurer Munich Re said on Tuesday, but warned of a still “alarming” picture of extreme weather events likely driven by climate change.
CP Group Urges Businesses to Lead Thailand’s Just Transition to a Greener, Fairer Future
Published on 08/12/2025
» Companies can take a leading role in driving a just transition, creating a greener and more inclusive society, opening new opportunities for sustainable growth. Sustainable business models that enable a just transition can be both profitable and beneficial to society.
Los Angeles wildfires cost Lloyd's of London $2.3bn
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» LONDON - Insurance market Lloyd's of London on Monday said it had taken a financial hit totalling about $2.3 billion from the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year.
Trade war and a weaker Thai outlook
Business, InnovestX Securities, Published on 01/03/2025
» Two months into the New Year, the economic and investment outlook has turned negative, affected by a global slowdown and intensifying trade wars.
Brazil sugar losses make Thai, Indian supply more important
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/09/2024
» Brazil's wildfires and drought that rattled the global sugar market have put the onus on Thailand and India to cover lost supplies. But both have offered recent reminders that they too face their own risks.
BAAC unveils scheme for carbon credits
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/02/2024
» The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) plans to purchase 510,000 tonnes of carbon credits within five years, says president Chatchai Sirilai.
Waiting to exhale
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Phusadee Arunmas, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep and Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 13/11/2023
» During the dry season in recent years, people in many provinces, particularly those in the hilly North, have endured seasonal smog, spending more time indoors with an air purifier to avoid the air pollution.
Machine learning can help us predict the risks of climate change for your community
Published on 22/11/2022
» Global models are the main method scientists use to understand how the climate may change in the future. What’s missing is a more in-depth understanding that could inform markets, investors and vulnerable communities. But using advances in computing muscle, researchers at Imperial College Business School in London have created some science-based tools that allow a tighter analysis – and the results are surprising. They’ve focused on a group of countries in South East Asia, in a piece of research supported by the Singapore Green Finance Centre.
Inflation and the economy: a delicate balancing act
Business, SCB Securities, Published on 27/08/2022
» When I sat down to write this article, the most eye-catching event on the annual calendar of global monetary policy authorities was about to get under way. Analysts agreed the headline speaker at the US Federal Reserve conference in the mountain resort town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming — Fed chairman Jerome Powell — could set the tone for months to come.
California says new cars must be zero emission by 2035
AFP, Published on 26/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES: California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in America's most populous state must be zero emission from 2035, in what was billed as a nation-leading step to slash the pollutants that cause global warming.