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UNCC meets with Arsht Rock to discuss climate resilience finance through the private sector

Fri, May 26, 2023

High-Level Champions and Arsht-Rock mobilize the private financial sector to unlock climate adaptation and resilience finance and projects

The partnership will mobilize concrete actions and contributions by the private financial sector—particularly institutional investors, the insurance industry and the banking community.

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Innovative policy and finance

Tue, Mar 7, 2023

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton named Arsht-Rock Global Ambassador for Heat, Health, and Gender

Marking SEWA’s 50th anniversary, Arsht-Rock announces co-creation of the new Extreme Heat Income Insurance, a climate resilience tool to replace income lost to climate-driven extreme heat for women in the informal sector.

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Tue, Mar 7, 2023

Fighting extreme heat with parametric insurance: protecting the livelihoods of women in India’s informal economy sector

Arsht-Rock’s new Extreme Heat Income Insurance will help 21,000 women in India recover wages lost due to climate-driven extreme heat events.

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Extreme Heat Microinsurance Launched in India to Protect Women Workers

Mon, Feb 6, 2023

First-of-its-kind extreme heat microinsurance launched in India to protect women workers

Marking SEWA’s 50th anniversary, Arsht-Rock announces co-creation of the new Extreme Heat Income Insurance, a climate resilience tool to replace income lost to climate-driven extreme heat for women in the informal sector.

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Cool Capital Stack English
The sun shines on people standing on the roof observation deck of the Griffith Observatory, as a potentially dangerous heat wave grips the western U.S., in Los Angeles, California, June 29, 2013. Dozens of people were treated for heat-related ailments, and cities and towns across the western United States took emergency measures to help residents cool off, as the region sweltered on Saturday in dangerous triple-digit temperatures. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

Mon, Dec 12, 2022

What AB 2238 means for California: The bill that protects 40 million people from extreme heat

AB 2238, the recently signed Californian bill, will create a heat wave categorization system by January 1, 2025.

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COP27 Lessons from Sharm El-Sheikh

Tue, Nov 22, 2022

Countdown to the “Cooling COP”: what we can learn from COP27

After days of intense negotiations, it is clear how much work remains after COP27. As formal negotiations fell short of expected outcomes, the actors and leaders beyond the COP27 negotiation table led the way in climate action and hope.

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Tue, Nov 15, 2022

Catalyzing insurance sector action to protect communities from extreme heat

Advancing the insurance sector’s core risk management capabilities will help nations, regions, and communities address the growing physical risks of climate change and extreme heat.

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Innovative policy and finance

Thu, Nov 10, 2022

Arsht-Rock Partners with Marsh McLennan and UN Climate Change High-Level Champions to Advance Insurance Sector Action on Climate Adaptation 

Arsht-Rock partners with Marsh McLennan to help mobilize the insurance sector in support of the UN’s Race to Resilience by championing innovative disaster risk reduction initiatives.

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Image of apartment complexes filled with green gardens on the balconies.

Wed, Nov 9, 2022

Arsht-Rock announces the Cool Capital Stack: A $750 million investment pipeline to protect the world from extreme heat

Arsht-Rock announces the Cool Capital Stack at COP27 to address the urgent climate crisis of extreme heat with an aggregation of projects and technologies to protect people and local economies.

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Wed, Nov 9, 2022

Nancy Pelosi and Kathy Castor talk climate and resilience with Arsht-Rock at COP27

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