Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change May Increase Wildfires in Great Basin
Nov 4 2007 // Climate change is likely to increase the number of wildfires fueled by invasive weeds that are spreading throughout the Great Basin, researchers recently told a U.S. Senate subcommittee. Researchers described a potential...
Report: Insurance Initiatives Tackling Climate Change Reach New High
Oct 18 2007 // Hundreds of new insurance initiatives, including green building credits, drought-protection in developing countries and incentives for investing in renewable energy and carbon emissions trading are being offered to tackle...
Gore, UN Climate Panel Share Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Change Work
Oct 12 2007 // He may have lost the 2000 presidential election, but he has won the admiration of the world. Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been jointly awarded this...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Already Exceed ‘Worst-case’ Scenario
Oct 10 2007 // Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate...
Swiss Re Launches Climate Program
Sep 27 2007 // Swiss Re announced the launch of its “Climate Adaptation Development Program” (CADP) at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 meeting, which took place in New York on Sept.26-28. The Program is “designed to...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 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 America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 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 America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Climate Change Tops UN Agenda
Sep 24 2007 // September marks the end of summer and ushers in a time of reflection. The working world returns from summer vacations and begins functioning on a heightened level, as the end of the year draws near. Problems that have been...
Climate Change Expert Predicts Hawaii Hurricanes To Get Stronger
Sep 18 2007 // Nobody can say how many hurricanes will hit Hawaii each year, according to a climate change expert, but there’s no doubt they’ll get worse. “I can’t tell you there will be more of them,”...
Lloyd’s Signs on to ‘ClimateWise’
Sep 14 2007 // Lloyd’s announced that it is joining a number of leading insurers, reinsurers and brokers in signing on to the “ClimateWise principles.” Lloyd’s described the initiative as a “major...
Industry Needs to Address Climate Change Says F&C Report
Sep 13 2007 // A new study from the London-based F&C Asset Management Group sounds a warning to the insurance community that the effects of climate change could have devastating consequences. “The magnitude and frequency of...
Fla. CFO to Visit U.K. to Discuss Climate Effects on Insurance
Sep 7 2007 // Keith Allan, Her Majesty’s Consul General of Miami, invited Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink to meet with British leaders in London in early November. Sink will meet with experts at the London School of...
Atlantis Effect? Rising Sea Level Worries Wash. Shoreline Areas
Sep 5 2007 // Washington’s low-lying capital city is a bit nervous in planning a new $38 million City Hall near the shoreline of Puget Sound, fearing that global warming and rising waters could submerge much of the downtown in...
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...
