Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Weather Report
May 7 2007 // Estimating the potential costs of future weather related events, linked to climate change, is, at best, an inexact science; there are just too many variables. Nonetheless, a picture is emerging that, whatever happens, the...
Catching up on climate change
May 7 2007 // Recent mega-catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast have brought increased attention to the issue of global climate change and its impact on the insurance industry. Even so, most insurers have just begun...
IPCC Delegates Hammer Out Climate Change Report in Thailand
May 4 2007 // International delegates struggled into the night Thursday to agree on ways of cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions-or face economic and environmental catastrophe caused by global warming. China has emerged as a key...
Developing Countries Want Assistance Offer Included in Climate Report
May 3 2007 // Developing countries are demanding that a key climate report being negotiated this week in the Thai capital recognize a troubling reality: they will be hit worse by a warming world and need plenty of help to deal with...
US, China Criticize Climate Change Action Study, as EU Calls for Action
May 2 2007 // The European Union called on developing countries Tuesday to take action to reduce greenhouse gases, as delegates worked to finalize a report detailing measures needed to save the planet. The draft report from the...
Climate Change Conference Calls for Quick Action to Reduce Global Warming
May 1 2007 // A major climate meeting opened Monday in the Thai capital with delegates debating how to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions that could threaten hundreds of millions with hunger and disease in the coming decades. For...
IPCC Conference Opens in Bangkok on How to Combat Global Warming
Apr 30 2007 // The costs of cutting greenhouse gases and who will pay for doing it are likely to be the key issues at a major U.N.-backed climate change meeting of scientists and diplomats in the Thai capital this week, participants said...
R&M ‘Carbon Finance’ Analysis Praised as ‘Timely’
Apr 19 2007 // Dublin-based market analysts Research and Markets notes that the firm’s recently released report, “Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change,” has received praise from industry...
Report: Army Corps Must Acknowledge Global Warming
Apr 16 2007 // The Army Corps of Engineers needs to acknowledge that the world is heating up and seas are rising to better protect the nation from flooding and hurricanes, according to a report by two environmental groups. The report,...
Lloyd’s 360 Report Examines Potential Effects of ‘Rapid Climate Change’
Apr 6 2007 // Lloyd’s third “360 report” does for the insurance industry what the IPCC report, see previous article, does for the whole world. It focuses attention on global warming/climate change in a way that cannot...
IPCC Report Confirms Widespread Impact of Global Warming
Apr 6 2007 // The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its “Fourth Assessment of Working Group II,” which updates past studies and sets forth the “current scientific understanding of impacts of...
Fla. Searches for New Beginning Amid Continuing Insurance, Climate Woes
Apr 5 2007 // Canceled insurance policies and skyrocketing rates plaguing the state since the active hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 are a premonition of Florida’s future under a warming climate, an insurance expert told the...
Florida Climate Change Web Site Unveiled, “Conversations” Begin
Apr 3 2007 // In anticipation of this week’s “Conversations on Climate Change,” Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Charles Bronson unveiled an official Web...
Neb. Director Says Industry is “Poster Child” on Global Warming
Mar 21 2007 // Insurance Commissioner L. Tim Wagner has spent close to 40 years in the insurance industry, the last nine as the appointed Nebraska regulator. He takes his role seriously and believes the insurance industry has a real...
Allianz Joins Institutions to Urge Congress to Act on Climate Change
Mar 20 2007 // Money talks and $4 trillion talks very loudly. So loud in fact that a number of institutional investors, who manage a total of $4 trillion in assets, hope to get the attention of U.S. lawmakers. Their goal is to convince...
Tim Wagner, Nebraska, Director of Insurance
Mar 12 2007 // Director of Insurance L. Tim Wagner has spent close to 40 years in the insurance industry, the last nine as the appointed Nebraska regulator. He takes his role seriously and believes the insurance industry has a real...
Munich Re Releases 2006 Nat Cat Report; Focus on Climate Change
Mar 8 2007 // In a just released report – “Topics Geo — Natural catastrophes 2006” – Munich Re maintains that “continuing unfavorable natural climate cycle and additional effects of global warming will...
Marsh CEO Opens National Oil Company Conference with a Warning
Feb 27 2007 // Brian Storms, Chairman and CEO of Marsh Inc, speaking at the opening of the Marsh National Oil Company conference in Dubai, told delegates: “The world’s desire for environmentally-friendly energy sources...
Allianz, Munich Re Endorse Global Roundtable Climate Change Accords
Feb 21 2007 // Two of the world’s largest insurers – Allianz AG and Munich Re – announced that they have signed on to the joint declaration issued by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change (GRoCC) in New York City on...
Willis Taps into Supercomputer to Analyze Climate Change, Nat Cats
Feb 13 2007 // The Willis Research Network (WRN) “has joined forces with internationally renowned universities to harness the immense power of the NEC Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan to help insurers understand the frequency and...
