How To Make Money Betting Against Nature’s Wrath
Catastrophe bonds were the best performing alternative asset class in 2023, up 20%. A new ETF is coming, but its success depends on the weather. By Brandon Kochkodin,Forbes Staff The forecast is grim. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an 85% chance for an intense hurricane season, with up to 13 of the storms […]
heat waves: Cruel Summer: Rethinking how to live, work in a world that is getting warmer
Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future opens with citizens in Uttar Pradesh trying desperately to escape the searing heat, even standing neck-deep in a river for respite. Robinson’s is a work of “climate fiction”, but Prasad Vaidya, who leads the Sustainable Energy Lab at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, says the […]