Nearly $5trn of GDP at risk from catastrophe over next decade, warns new Lloyd's City Risk Index

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University of Cambridge research shows the economic output of 300 of the world's leading cities is threatened by man-made catastrophes

Environmental, technological, and economic catastrophes could cost the world trillions of dollars of economic output over the next decade, the latest edition of the Lloyd's City Risk Index warns. The...

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