Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published its ‘Global Catastrophe Recap: First Half of 2016’ report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide in the first six months of the year.
At the halfway point of 2016 the US has already seen eight weather and climate-related disasters that have each met or exceeded $1 billion in damages. These eight disasters resulted in the loss of 30 lives, and caused at least $13.1 billion, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) aim to reduce disaster losses in some of the world’s most hazard prone cities with the initial aid of a €6 million grant from the EU, over the next three years.
The United Nations has kicked-off a new multi-year campaign that aims to reduce disaster losses, improve management of disaster risk, and save lives.
Organizations supplying essential services will have to improve their ability to withstand cyber-attacks under the first EU-wide rules on cyber resilience and security. These were approved by MEPs on July 6th 2016.
President Obama has made a major disaster declaration for the State of West Virginia area affected by severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides beginning on June 22nd 2016.
Marsh has published a briefing paper on resilience and risk management in ports and terminals around the world. ‘The Black Swan: The Unexpected in Ports and Terminals’, examines the implications of low-probability, high-impact events on ports and terminals.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has announced the Fiscal Year 2016 Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Grant Program, with $10 million in available funds.
The US Department of Homeland Security has published a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin which describes the government’s current terrorism risk assessment.
The Bulletin states that DHS is ‘particularly concerned about homegrown violent extremists
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