According to preliminary estimates, total worldwide economic losses from natural and man-made catastrophes in 2018 declined to USD 155 billion from USD 350 billion in 2017, says the Swiss Re Group.
In a recent update on the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization stated that the risk of regional and national transmission is very high and measures need to be implemented to control the threat.
The President's National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) has issued a draft report which looks at preparedness for a future catastrophic power outage impacting the United States.
Providing workplace resilience programmes, designed to bolster mental health and wellbeing and to help employees deal with traumatic incidents, might not make any difference, suggests research published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
In its latest ‘Hype Cycle for IT in GCC’ Gartner identifies various technologies that will reach mainstream adoption in five to 10 years. Of these one in particular - ‘digital twins’ - has strong potential for assisting organizations improve their organizational resilience.
Aon's Impact Forecasting team has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during November 2018.
Officials and experts from NATO Allies and partner countries met at NATO Headquarters recently to discuss critical infrastructure interdependencies and protection. Seven resilience baselines were considered: energy; communications; food and water; transportation; mass casualties; population movements; and continuity of government services.
The European Union has moved closer to creating an EU-wide coordinated disaster response capability, called rescEU. rescEU will strengthen the existing EU Civil Protection Mechanism, providing standby resources to respond to floods, wildfires or other incidents which overwhelm national response resources.
A new technical paper written by Junaid Seria, Head of Cat Model R&D and Governance at SCOR Global P&C, provides some useful resilience lessons resulting from the water crisis that hit Cape Town’s communities and businesses earlier this year.
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