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Businesses and communities everywhere are faced with risk every day. Verisk works to understand the true nature of risk and develop tools and methods to help people manage it. Verisk helps people make critical decisions that affect millions of lives and tens of thousands of businesses around the world—all while remaining focused on people, economies, and the planet.

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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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30 April 2021

Climate change could cut corn belt crop yields by up to 40 Percent due to increasing unfavorable, extreme weather by mid-century, according to a new report

13 states in the U.S. are responsible for nearly 30 percent of global corn crop, researchers collaborated to quantify the impact from climate change on agricultural risk.

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30 April 2021

Quantifying the impacts of climate change on U.S. corn yields

This research discuses that despite the robust, positive trends in crop yields in recent decades, and the remarkably successful plant breeding programs across the world, poor weather still negatively affects the growth of crops and the production