Mike Roddy Americans consume 23% of the world’s wood products, with 4% of global population. This is fueled by subsidized timber, entrenched in a nexus of the lumber, construction, and insurance industries Americans’ habit of building houses with lumber is a 19th century relic, a method rarely used in the rest of the world. Australia… Continue reading Timber hunger in the American Housing Sector
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Secretive ‘Rebate Trap’ in US Keeps Generic Drugs For Diabetes And Other Ills Out Of Reach
Rebate trap joins a long history of efforts by makers of brand-name drugs to stifle generics, including protecting drugs with multiple layers of dubious patents, “pay for delay” deals to keep generics off the market and withholding key ingredients needed for generic production
Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean
Torsten Thiele Experts gathered in Bermuda for the first Ocean Risk Summit, which aims to improve understanding of ocean risks and unlock blue capital The global ocean is changing rapidly, with significant and increasing impacts on marine ecosystems, human lives and economies. Assessing the impacts of these ocean hazards requires science and data, responding to… Continue reading Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean
Insurance scheme helps Bangladesh flood victims minimise losses
Rafiqul Islam A flood insurance scheme, introduced as a pilot project by an international NGO, has helped families in Bangladesh cope with the economic fallout of floods Orignially posted at thethirdpole.net, that focuses on understanding Asia’s water crisis. Republished at SixDegrees under Creative Commons’ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 England & Wales License Like the previous year, floodwaters again inundated Ronu… Continue reading Insurance scheme helps Bangladesh flood victims minimise losses
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