Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ABI Teams with AIR, Met Office in Study of Climate Change Flood Costs
Nov 4 2009 // The Association of British Insurers is increasingly concerned that “rising global temperatures will put the heat on insurance as flood costs rise.” This would in turn “lead to more expensive and harder to...
UN Climate Change Talks Resume as Time Runs Out for Deal
Nov 2 2009 // Time has almost run out to break the deadlock on a U.N. climate deal supposed to be struck in Copenhagen next month, the United Nations and Denmark warned negotiators at a final preparatory meeting on Monday. “The...
Declarations
Nov 1 2009 // Equal Pay, Equal Justice “It’s not about the money. … It’s about equal pay, equal treatment, equal justice.” —Sylvester McClain, 62, a former employee of Lufkin Industries Inc. in Lufkin,...
Southeast States Among Most Exposed to Climate Change Impact: Report
Oct 26 2009 // Poverty and climate hazards make the southeast United States the country’s most vulnerable area to climate change impact, Oxfam America said. A report released by the relief organization identified high-risk...
U.S. Warned to Prepare Now for Disasters Caused by Global Warming
Oct 26 2009 // As Congress considers curbs on carbon dioxide pollution, a U.S. report has urged the White House to prepare now for flooding and other natural disasters brought by global warming. Federal agencies, working with Congress,...
What ‘Plan B’ for Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Might Look Like
Oct 16 2009 // Negotiators are already talking about “plan B” for the Copenhagen climate talks in December, with uncertainty growing that nations will be able to agree in time on a tougher and broader U.N. climate pact. While...
Leaders Warn Time Running Out for Global Warming Deal
Sep 29 2009 // U.N. climate talks kicked off Monday in Bangkok with leaders calling for delegates to break the deadlock over a global warming deal and warning failure to act would leave future generations fighting for...
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...
