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  • Monday, 2 December, 2019
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    When extreme weather threat needs a stilted response

    Asset owners must grapple with growing dangers from extreme meteorological events

  • Monday, 25 November, 2019
    Swiss Re AG
    Swiss Re plans natural disaster sales push

    Group sees growth opportunity in catastrophe reinsurance

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    UK floods
    Tide of anger rises in flooded Yorkshire village

    Fishlake locals hold authorities responsible for deluge that swept through community a week ago

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2019
    Italy
    Italy declares emergency after Venice floods

    City officials have linked the record water levels to climate change

  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
    UK floods
    Military to be sent to flood-stricken areas of England

    Cobra emergency committee takes action as government response comes under fire

  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
    Australia
    Firefighters battle ‘catastrophic’ wildfires in eastern Australia

    States of emergency declared as worst fires in a decade escalate climate change debate

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    UK floods
    Johnson calls emergency Cobra meeting over floods

    Corbyn says national emergency would have been declared ‘if this happened in Surrey’

  • Sunday, 3 November, 2019
    AnalysisUS society
    Fires force Californians to face changing landscape

    Residents’ way of life endangered by rising risk from climate change and wildfires

  • Sunday, 27 October, 2019
    California
    California governor declares emergency as wildfires rage

    Hundreds of thousands evacuated and about 2.8m without power

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  • Sunday, 13 October, 2019
    Japan
    Typhoon Hagibis leaves at least 30 dead in Japan

    Storm forces shutdown of Tokyo and sparks emergency rescue efforts

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    Houston hit by flooding 2 years after Hurricane Harvey
  • Friday, 6 September, 2019
    Hurricane Dorian set to cost insurers $3bn in Bahamas

    First big storm of Atlantic season brings flood warnings and high winds to eastern US

  • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
    AnalysisUS insurance industry
    Reinsurers benefit from calm amid the storm

    Munich Re and Swiss Re have seen gains from rising prices, but dangers lie ahead

  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2019
    US braced for Dorian as hurricane batters Bahamas

    Emergency declared in five states while officials order mandatory evacuations

  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2019
    Adam Tooze
    Hurricane in the Bahamas is a harbinger of our future

    The islands combine extreme affluence and deep poverty with vulnerability to climate change

  • Sunday, 1 September, 2019
    Category 5 hurricane Dorian strikes Bahamas

    Strongest storm ever to hit Abaco islands area threatens Florida coast

  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2019
    Peter Wise
    A new chapter in Portugal’s history of migration

    Tourism has brought economic benefits but could threaten Lisbon’s traditional way of life

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    31 sec
    Wildfires sweep through vast areas of Siberian forest

    Blazes raging in five regions raise concern over Moscow’s commitment to tackling climate change

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    Russia
    Siberian wildfires prompt Russia to declare state of emergency

    Military dispatched to help in firefighting efforts as blaze spreads across forest in 4 regions

  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    FTfmJohn Dizard
    A disaster-filled 2019 will be bad news for catastrophe bonds

    What happens this year will be critical for the insurance-linked securities industry

  • Saturday, 6 July, 2019
    Greece
    People’s anger over 2018 wildfires weighs on Greek polls

    Residents complain about government response during the disaster and slow pace of recovery

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    Special ReportDoing Business in Kansai and Osaka
    Osaka bolsters flood defences as threat rises

    Recent disasters highlighted the low-lying city’s increasing vulnerability

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2019
    PG&E Corp
    PG&E responsible for California’s deadliest blaze: CalFire
  • Friday, 3 May, 2019
    India
    Indian coast battered by strongest cyclone in decades

    More than 1m people evacuated as Cyclone Fani hits Odisha state with 200kph winds

  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2019
    Insurance
    Reinsurers’ profits hit by fierce competition

    Industry under pressure from new business models such as catastrophe bonds

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