Biden Administration to Support Controversial UN Cyber Treaty November 12, 2024 By Jamie Tarabay The Biden administration plans to support a controversial cybercrime treaty at the United Nations this week despite concerns that it...
5 Key Takeaways From Latest United Nations Report on Climate Change August 9, 2021 By Eric Roston and Akshat Rathi Today, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its latest comprehensive report on the state of global climate...
UN Envoy Carney Backs Investors’ Call for Increased Climate Risk Disclosure September 28, 2020 By Simon Jessop United Nations climate envoy Mark Carney on Thursday threw his weight behind a growing push by investors for companies to...
AXA’s Duverne Named Chairman of Insurance Development Forum, Replacing Catlin September 13, 2018 The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) announced the appointment of Denis Duverne as chair of its Steering Committee, succeeding Stephen Catlin,...
UN Official: Tech Industry Must Address Cybersecurity, Job Effects from Its Innovations May 1, 2018 By Dina Bass Technology companies have an obligation to address the unintended consequences of advances like artificial intelligence and innovations that enable damaging...
United Nations Assessing Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico December 14, 2017 By Danica Coto A United Nations expert on extreme poverty and human rights met Monday with hurricane victims in Puerto Rico as complaints...
Re/Insurance CEOs Join Insurance Development Forum, UN & World Bank Initiative May 17, 2016 A group of re/insurance and global broking CEOs are assisting the work of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), which was...
XL Catlin Exec Heads Public-Private Forum to Close ‘Protection Gap’ for Disasters April 19, 2016 The insurance industry, the United Nations and the World Bank have formed a public-private partnership designed to help bridge the...
Landmark Climate Change Agreement ‘A Major Leap for Mankind’: Pres. Hollande December 14, 2015 By Alex Morales and Ewa Krukowska The world’s nations took the boldest steps yet to stem climate change, adopting an historic package of measures to limit...
National Emissions Plans Fall Short to Limit Climate Change – UN Study September 3, 2015 By Alister Doyle National plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions fall short of tough action needed to slow climate change under a United...