Dear GlobalRisk Community member,
I wish everyone a prosperous and fruitful New Year and I as wanted to prepare the goals for the Community for 2013 I just realised that I don’t want to dictate you what the goals of the community will be.
We have now more than 14000 people around the world some of you are visiting the Community website very often. That’s why I’d like to propose that you suggest the goals by posting your thoughts to this discussion thread.
Perhaps producing webinars, conferences or round tables meetings, holding an annual event, interviewing some VIPs in the sector, be featured on television, creating our own products, publishing a book, campaigning on an issue – these are all good goals.
From my perspective the good goals for this year would be:
1. increase the interaction between members,
2. Continue to bring the community together,
3. Get people excited about collaboration,
4. Find a number of faithful partners or sponsors
5. Continue publishing our thematic e-books based on user-generated-content
Please comment on this discussion, as the goals set will require a robust action planning so that members can meaningfully participate in achieving the goals.
Thank you for being here.
Boris Agranovich, GlobalRisk Community, Founder
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I am interested in sharing information as to how organizations are managing risk relating to climate change. It looks as if we will see increases in losses related to weather.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/21/climate-change-na...
"Smith said it is clear that 2012 was a more expensive year for natural disasters than 2011. In fact, the year is likely to rank as the second most expensive year for natural disaster losses since 1980, second only to 2005, when four hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina, made landfall along the Gulf coast. Those storms, along with other extreme events that year, caused $187.2bn in damage, when adjusted for inflation to 2012 dollars.
Although 2012 is likely to exceed the losses incurred last year, more people were killed by extreme weather and climate events in 2011 than in 2012, Smith said. That is largely due to the devastating tornado season last year, when 551 people lost their lives, the highest death toll since reliable records began in 1950."