India s fishers need better insurance schemes that also cover losses due to climate change scroll.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scroll.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Existing insurance schemes for fishers cover only death, accident and total vessel loss. They do not cover losses due to declining catch and damage to equipment, vessels and infrastructure, which are becoming increasingly common due to extreme weather events caused by global heating.
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on May 3, 2021 6:31am The Chinese embassy in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Justin Li, who currently serves as director of the
National Capital Confucius Institute for Culture, Language and Business at
Carleton University, as well as the director emeritus of the University of Alberta’s China Institute. (6:30 – 8:30 PM)
Also on the witness list for the evening session: Two former top-level security officials one-time
national security adviser Richard Fadden and
Ward Elcock, who headed up the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
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HEALTH, members continue their wide-ranging probe of the “emergency situation facing Canadians” as a result of the ongoing pandemic with expert testimony from medical and public-health experts, including representatives from the