PAKISTAN stands at the front lines of the global climate crisis. From heatwaves and droughts to devastating floods that threaten lives and livelihoods each year, the economic and human toll of climate ...

Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making a noisy case against it. In her 2021 polemic, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” the literary critic Parul Sehgal argued that ...

Parametric insurance, also known as index-based insurance, is a type of cover in which the insurance company and customer agree on a sum that will be paid out if a specific event occurs. The event ...

Addressing the high demand for residential options near the upcoming Noida International Airport area, the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has launched a new residential ...

The staggering economic costs associated with increasing climate-related disasters have propelled small island states like Fiji to use innovative tools like parametric climate insurance, which is ...

Between 2000 and 2019, India experienced the third-highest number of natural disaster events globally. The future looks grim as the frequency and intensity of these disasters are projected to increase ...

The warmest year on record was 2023. A report estimated that losses from natural disasters amounted to $280 billion in 2023, of which only about $100 billion was insured. The gap in insurance coverage ...

The world is heating up, and Asia remains the fastest-warming region, with temperatures rising more rapidly than the global average. The continent is also the world’s most-disaster affected due to ...