Resilience news

StormGeo issues forecast for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Details: Published: Thursday, 14 April 2016 09:05

StormGeo, the specialist weather forecasting company, has released its initial forecast for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Entries now being accepted for International Association of Emergency Managers annual awards

Details: Published: Wednesday, 06 April 2016 08:51

The entry period for the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) 2016 Awards Competition has opened and will run until May 31st.

New Orleans’ resilience plan wins national award

Details: Published: Thursday, 31 March 2016 08:34

The American Planning Association (APA) has announced that Resilient New Orleans, the planning strategy by the city of New Orleans to make the city more resilient, has received the 2016 National Planning Excellence Award for a Best Practice.

Roundup of March’s natural disasters around the world

Details: Published: Tuesday, 12 April 2016 08:13

Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events around the world during March 2016.

ENISA warns of the threat of a major European cyber crisis

Details: Published: Wednesday, 06 April 2016 08:41

ENISA has analysed the EU-level crisis management frameworks in five different sectors to make recommendations on more efficient cyber crisis cooperation and management. The subsequent report highlights the lessons that can be learnt from other sectors and that could be applicable in the cyber domain.

Global insured losses from disasters were approximately USD 37 billion in 2015

Details: Published: Thursday, 31 March 2016 08:04

According to the latest Swiss Re sigma study, global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2015 were USD 37 billion, well-below the USD 62 billion average of the previous 10 years.

IOSCO publishes cyber resilience report

Details: Published: Friday, 08 April 2016 08:37

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a report that brings together insights and perspectives from IOSCO’s various policy, stakeholder and regional committees on the topic of cyber resilience.

Resilience: when trusting your instincts is the right thing to do

Details: Published: Friday, 01 April 2016 09:16

One of the key skills of a great resilience professional is the ability to trust your gut instincts. In this article Paul Kudray explains why this is the case and why sometimes the plan needs to take a back seat…