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  • U.S. coastal states such as Florida, California, and Louisiana are experiencing a growing property insurance crisis that is being driven by man-made events, highlighting the need for reinsurance capital to absorb more of the risk as carriers navigate a testing environment. Artemis.bm - The Catastrophe Bond, Insurance Linked Securities & Investment, Reinsurance Capital, Alternative Risk Transfer and Weather Risk Management site
  • The flooding in North China, Western European, and Australia, wildfires around the globe, oil spill in Southern California - natural and man-made disasters pose threats to the well-being of human beings, wildlife, as well as the shared environment in which we live. Iamcr
  • The momentum of man-made climate change is strong and will continue to take its toll on the planet's environment, ecology and human lives and livelihoods in 2022 through extreme weather events, warming oceans, erosion of arable land (and its productivity), monsoon caprices and other processes. Northlines | Jammu Kashmir News
  • The Government of Kenya and its partners are engaging to create an enabling environment for implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which is a 15-year global plan to curb deaths and economic losses caused by natural and man-made hazards. ncpd.digispurenterprises.com
  • Increasing energy consumption and associated atmospheric pollution will directly impact carriers' risk exposure. PwC
  • The mobile sector is taking collaborative action to be fully transparent about our own climate impacts and have developed an industry-wide climate action roadmap, to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement. Identity
  • Due to rapidly growing urbanization, with two-thirds of the global population expected to live in cities by 2050, more people will be exposed to infrastructure systems failures in a very near future. G20 Insights
  • Rapid urbanisation can strain local capacities, contributing to increased risk from natural and human made disasters. Study Sapience
  • Environmental disasters were listed among the 30 global risks as WEF sees them. Robotic&Automation News
  • Some seven million women, children, and men could risk famine in 2017. vaccines and global health :: ethics and policy
  • Man-made disasters like climate change or natural catastrophes such as an asteroid hit could force a human exodus from Earth. Time
  • The U.N.'s role as intervenor-of-last-resort in global crises will expand. Foreign Policy
  • American officials will turn to the U.N. for coordination and the ability to sustain relief operations over time with levels of resources and personnel that Washington will not maintain alone. Foreign Policy
  • The anticipated Iraqi military offensive on Mosul could trigger one of the largest man-made disasters in many years, displacing more than one million Iraqi civilians. VOA
  • The explosions at the Port of Tianjin in China are expected to lead to the year's biggest insured loss and the biggest man-made insured loss in Asia ever. Insurance Journal
  • Total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters will reach approximately $85 billion in 2015. Insurance Journal
  • If a company relies on onsite data storage and backup only, a disaster or mistake could destroy all the information needed to run the business. Tech Co
  • DARPA could use specifically engineered organisms to rehabilitate tracts of land on Earth devastated by natural or man-made disasters. Discover Blog
  • A catastrophe could affect budgetary outcomes by reducing economic growth over a number of years. CBO
  • The private sector may continue to chip away at the notion that foreign government aid organizations are the best stewards to tackle development challenges in poor countries. New Security Beat
  • Risks inside and outside the EU as well as on a transnational level should be seen as interlinked security challenges that Europe will inevitably have to deal with to sustain its peace and security. University of Latvia
  • Uncontrolled migration are among the challenges that do and will threaten European citizens in the decade to come. University of Latvia

Last updated: 19 June 2026



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