Weird Climate Disasters
This natural disaster shook San Francisco in 1906, destroying much of the city through both shaking and fire.
What is an earthquake?
This type of initiative allows Conduit Re employees to give back to the Bermuda community through volunteer work like Meals on Wheels deliveries and environmental cleanups.
What is out of office volunteering?
A simple way students can help reduce plastic waste at school by bringing this type of water container.
What is a reusable water bottle?
This gas, released when we burn things like coal, oil, and gas, is the biggest cause of climate change.
What is carbon dioxide?
Burning fossil fuels like coal and oil releases greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
True
In 2005, this powerful hurricane caused severe flooding in New Orleans when the levees failed.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
Launched in December 2020, this Bermuda-based company was designed from the start with ESG and climate action at its core.
What is Conduit Re
Students can protect Bermuda’s beautiful coastline and marine life by volunteering for this well-known organization’s island-wide clean-up events.
What is Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB)?
Driving cars that use gas and flying in airplanes add more of this into the air, which heats up the planet.
What is pollution?
ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance, which are criteria companies use to operate responsibly.
True
This natural disaster struck Pompeii in 79 A.D., burying the city in ash and preserving it for centuries.
What is a volcanic eruption?
This initiative allows Conduit Re employees to receive interest-free loans to purchase solar panels or electric vehicles
What is the Green Loan Program?
Bermudian students can get involved in environmental leadership by attending this annual event hosted by BUEI.
What is the Youth Climate Summit?
Cutting down too many of these living things removes natural air cleaners and makes climate change worse.
Reinsurers avoid using catastrophe models to assess climate risks because they are not accurate.
False
In 2004, this type of disaster in the Indian Ocean killed over 200,000 people across Asia and Africa.
Through partnerships with organizations like Waterstart, and Living Reefs, Conduit Re focuses on conservation of this type of environment.
What is the marine environment?
Students can help protect Bermuda’s fragile ecosystems by volunteering with these types of organizations, like the Bermuda National Trust or Living Reefs Foundation.
What is environmental and conservation charities?
Big factories and power plants that make electricity from oil and gas give off a lot of this, which causes the Earth to warm.
What is greenhouse gas?
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, which raises risks for reinsurers.
True
In 1816, this catastrophic volcanic eruption in Indonesia led to the "Year Without a Summer," causing global crop failures and food shortages.
What is eruption of Mount Tambora?
Conduit Re’s staff contribute annually through volunteering, including delivering Meals on Wheels and participating in this annual event to reduce island-wide litter.
What is Keep Bermuda Beautiful's GREAT BIG Clean-Up?
To reduce emissions and promote sustainability, students in Bermuda can encourage their schools to participate in programs supporting these renewable energy options.
What are solar panel?
Throwing away too much food and creating waste leads to this gas from landfills, which is even more powerful than carbon dioxide.
What is methane?
Reinsurers only focus on avoiding risks and do not work on creating innovative insurance products for emerging climate challenges.
False