climate change

World’s pension funds vulnerable to climate risks, study reveals

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EurActiv (16.10.2018) 87% of assets managed by the world’s 100 largest public pension funds are yet to undergo a formal climate risk assessment, according to research published on Tuesday (23 October), with only 15% of them adopting a coal exclusion policy.

Global challenges
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Pensions
Investment
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[Interview] France: Pension fund chief: We are seeing a strong movement towards green financing

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Euractiv (25.09.2018) ERAFP is a pension fund which manages the additional retirement pension for civil servants. It is a mandatory pension scheme, which is capital-based and was established to benefit the 4.5 million civil servants, whether they are civilian or military officials, or employed by local government, hospitals or the judiciary. Having been established in 2005, the scheme allows civil servants to make contributions from all of their non-statutory income (any remuneration paid other than their index-related salary).

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france
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Pensions
Investment
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France: Canicule - l'employeur doit protéger ses salariés

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Les Echos (07.08.2018) L'employeur a l'obligation de préserver la santé et la sécurité de ses salariés. L'Assurance-maladie préconise l'évacuation au-delà de 34° C.

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france
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Occupational accidents and diseases
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[Report] Social Protection in Madagascar - The case of Cash Transfers: Capacity to respond to shocks and options for harmonization

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ReliefWeb (02.95.2018) The report has been prepared as commissioned by the Government of Madagascar (Ministry of Population, Social protection and Women’s Promotion and the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management) in coordination with the members of the emergency cash group and with UNICEF’s funding and technical support. The results of this report have been presented and discussed with the Government and the members of the emergency cash group.

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madagascar
Global challenges
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Conditional cash transfers
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El cambio climático llevará a 17 millones de personas a la migración interna en América Latina hasta 2050

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El País (20.03.2018) Casi cuatro millones de mexicanos y centroamericanos se verían obligados a dejar sus hogares por la subida del nivel del mar y la menor producción agrícola, según el Banco Mundial

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latin america
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Migration
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The ILO and the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP23

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ILO (03.11.2017) The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will be presided by Fiji and held in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November 2017. This twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) will meet with the aim to advance the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement and achieve progress on its implementation guidelines.

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Shocks & extreme events
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A Climate Resilient Approach to Social Protection

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Global Development Institute Blog (20.06.2017) Climate change is one of the biggest environmental and development challenges of the 21st century. But we will not all face this challenge in the same way, as the impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed; people that are marginalised in society are especially vulnerable to climate change because of intersecting social processes that create multidimensional inequalities.

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Social policies & programmes
Shocks & extreme events

Bangladesh: Thrust on taking climate-sensitive social protection schemes

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thefinancialexpress (02.10.2016) Speakers at a discussion on Sunday underscored the need for making the existing social protection programmes more climate sensitive by taking community-based adaptive social protection schemes to address poverty and cope with the aftermath of any disaster

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Asia
bangladesh
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Social assistance
Shocks & extreme events