Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Editor’s Note: Climate change
Sep 3 2007 // While Republicans and Democrats debate whether global warming is a problem, there’s no disputing that the climate is changing — and that includes the insurance climate, too. It’s probably no secret to you...
Climate change
Sep 3 2007 // While Republicans and Democrats debate whether global warming is a problem, there’s no disputing that the climate is changing — and that includes the insurance climate, too. It’s probably no secret to you...
Climate change
Sep 3 2007 // While Republicans and Democrats debate about whether global warming is a problem, there’s no disputing that the climate is changing — and that includes the insurance climate, too. It’s probably no secret...
Editor’s Note: Climate change
Sep 3 2007 // While Republicans and Democrats debate about whether global warming is a problem, there’s no disputing that the climate is changing — and that includes the insurance climate, too. It’s probably no secret...
River Levels Could Rise as More CO2 Makes Plants Less Thirsty
Aug 30 2007 // The UK’s Met Office has added a significant variable to the climate change equation. In a recently released study from the Hadley Center it published findings which “suggest that increasing carbon dioxide will...
Swiss Re: Nordic Region Storm Losses to Double by 2100
Aug 29 2007 // Swiss Re announced that a presentation at its second Nordic Risk & Insurance Summit (NORIS), “will show how winter storms Anatol, Gudrun and Per are harbingers of a more stormy future in Scandinavia, leading to...
UK’s Met Office Predicts Warmer Near Term Global Temperatures
Aug 13 2007 // A recently concluded study by climate scientists at the UK’s Met Office Hadley Center forecasts continued warming over the next 10 years. The study, published in the journal Science, “includes the Met...
Gore: Polluters Finance Research to Cast Doubt on Global Warming
Aug 10 2007 // Former Vice President Al Gore said this week that some of the world’s largest energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., are funding research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming as part...
ABI Estimates UK Flood Losses at $6.1 Billion; Supports Climate Change Bill
Aug 9 2007 // The Association of British Insurers has released new figures on the cost of the June and July floods, and the number of claims received. The ABI broke down the figures as follows: — Total cost: approaching £3...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Aug 6 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s Amer-ica Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Directors & Officers Liability
Aug 6 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Face Climate Change Consequences, Not Just Causes, Says ABI
Jun 20 2007 // The Association of British Insurers said it has put increased pressure on the UK Government to develop an effective climate change strategy with the publication of its climate change adaptation manifesto. The study...
World Financial Leaders Call on G-8 for ‘Deep Emission Reduction Targets’
Jun 6 2007 // The leaders of more than 20 of the world’s largest companies – many from the insurance industry* – have signed a “Declaration on Climate Change by the Financial Services Sector.” The document,...
Climate Change: Directors’ and officers’ risk ahead?
Jun 4 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
China Prepares Climate Change Policy Paper Ahead of G-8 Summit
Jun 1 2007 // China plans to release a national plan to combat climate change next week, Chinese officials said Thursday, paving the way for President Hu Jintao’s attendance at an industrialized nations’ summit that is...
US Calls on Asia to Take Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
May 30 2007 // Asian nations could reduce a quarter of their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if they increase renewable energy use, improve coal-fired power plant efficiency and switch to biofuels, a U.S. government report said...
Study Highlights Industry’s Potential Climate Change Liabilities
May 29 2007 // Liabilities follow the insurance industry as the night follows the day. So, it’s not terribly surprising to learn that a new study – “Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse: Insurance Risk-management...
Japan Proposes 50% Cut in Worldwide Greenhouse Gas Emissions
May 25 2007 // Japan plans to propose cutting world greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 in a bid to limit the effects of global warming, news reports said Thursday [May 24]. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was to announce the plan later...
S&P Report Says Insurers’ Climate Change Concerns are Real
May 23 2007 // A new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services – “Insurers Seek To Weather Changes In The Weather” – stresses that for the insurance industry, “climate’s impact...
S&P Hosts Teleconference on Global Warming Financial Impact Today
May 15 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services will host a teleconference today, May 15, 2007, outlining the findings from a 15 article series from the May 23rd issue of CreditWeek, its weekly outlook on credit risk. The...
