Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
High Tech May Pinpoint Antarctica, Greenland Sea Level Rise Risks
Sep 28 2009 // Dismayed by ice and storms, British explorer Captain James Cook had no regrets when he abandoned a voyage searching for a fabled southern continent in 1773. Finding only icebergs after he was the first to cross the...
China, U.S. Try to Jumpstart U.N. Climate Change Talks
Sep 23 2009 // China laid out a plan to curb carbon emissions by 2020 and U.S. President Barack Obama called on all nations to act now to tackle global warming, as world leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks. With...
Reinsurers’ Rendezvous Reveals Reflection; Sea Level Rise Imperil Coasts; Pirates Ahoy!
Sep 21 2009 // The world’s reinsurers gathered in Monte Carlo over the first weekend in September for their annual conclave. This year’s meetings were calm by comparison with prior years — no hurricanes ravaging...
Swiss Re Cites Report on Developing Countries Climate Change Costs
Sep 15 2009 // A report, published on Swiss Re’s web site from the Economics of Climate Adaptation Working Group, indicates that climate risks could cost nations up to 19 percent of their GDP by 2030, with developing countries most...
Coastal Home Owners Face Huge Losses from Rising Seas
Sep 3 2009 // Australians Lesley and Doug McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home. They bought an old beach shack on Collaroy Beach in 1976 and...
Zurich Focuses on Insurance Solutions to Climate Risk Challenge
Sep 2 2009 // According to a new report published by Zurich Financial Services Group, “core insurance mechanisms of underwriting, claims management and asset management can play a central role” in dealing with the...
Potential Seen for Climate Insurance in Tourist Industry
Sep 2 2009 // Insurance is an under-used way for the tourism industry to manage the risks of climate change, with existing offers ranging from a “perfect weather guarantee” by Barbados to ski resorts promising deep snow,...
Report from China Says Climate Talks Stymied by Political Interests
Aug 24 2009 // Little progress has been made so far on a new pact to combat global warming, with “commercial and political interests” continuing to prevail, China’s senior climate change official said on Monday. The...
Lloyd’s Assesses Impact of Heat Waves and Wildfires
Aug 19 2009 // The recent series of wildfires that ravaged parts of Spain, France, Greece and Italy in late July may well be symptomatic of the warming trend in global weather patterns according to experts at Lloyd’s of...
Report: California Must Adapt to Changing Climate
Aug 4 2009 // California will see more heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods due to rising temperatures over the next few decades, and the state needs to start preparing now to handle those effects of climate change, a new report...
CCRIF Assists AOSIS Climate Change Negotiating Strategy Preparation
Jul 30 2009 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) announced that it is “assisting the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) climate change negotiating team in finalizing the AOSIS position leading up to the...
U.S. and China Sign Memorandum on Climate Change
Jul 29 2009 // The United States and China, the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, signed an agreement Tuesday that promises more cooperation on climate change, energy and the environment without setting firm...
Int’l. Chamber of Commerce Lauds Recent G8 Steps on Climate Change
Jul 22 2009 // The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has published a bulletin welcoming the steps taken by G8 leaders at the recent summit in L’Aquila, Italy “to develop an effective response to climate change that...
Validus Wins IPC; Industry ‘Think Tank’ Warns on Climate Change; Partner Re to Acquire PARIS RE
Jul 20 2009 // The contest to acquire IPC Holding appears to be over. Validus Holdings, the formerly unwelcome suitor, whose rival bid ended Max Capital’s effort to take over IPC, has emerged as the winner. Validus finally came up...
U.S. Unveils ‘Spy Images’ of Arctic Ice in Rare Move Linked to Climate Change
Jul 17 2009 // In an unusually speedy move, a U.S. government agency released more than a thousand intelligence images of Arctic ice just a few hours after the National Academy of Sciences recommended the action to help scientists study...
Geneva Association Issues Report on Insurance Industry & Climate Change
Jul 6 2009 // Insurance industry leaders underscored their concerns over the potential impacts of climate change last Thursday July, 2 with the introduction of a 138 page report from the Geneva Association*, the industry’s most...
Index Insurance Seen Helping Poor Farmers Cope with Global Warming
Jun 26 2009 // A new form of insurance that covers risks such as droughts or floods could help small farmers in developing countries cope with worsening impacts of global warming, a U.N. backed report said on Wednesday. Under...
Red Cross Report Confirms 2008 Rise in Weather-Related Disasters
Jun 17 2009 // A global trend towards increasing weather-related disasters was confirmed in 2008, the second deadliest year in the past decade for natural catastrophes, an annual Red Cross report said Tuesday. The number of people...
New Report Cites Climate Change as Cause for 315,000 Deaths a Year
May 29 2009 // Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday. The study, commissioned by...
CCRIF Issues Briefing on Impact of Climate Change on Caribbean Economies
May 28 2009 // Against the background of the impending Atlantic Hurricane Season, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) has released a briefing document outlining the role of risk management in the region’s...
