Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
G-7 Pushes for Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by End of This Century
Jun 8 2015 // Some of the world’s richest nations threw their weight behind a plan to stamp out fossil-fuel emissions by the end of the century in an unprecedented show of unity on climate change. The Group of Seven is pushing to...
Investors Must Factor Climate Change in Their Portfolio Risk: Mercer Study
Jun 5 2015 // Most investors need to make a significant behavioral shift and start factoring climate change into their portfolio risk management, a study on its impact on financial market returns found. Government officials are meeting...
NOAA Research Warns Global Warming Continues Unabated
Jun 5 2015 // The pace of global warming hasn’t slowed since 1998, a finding that contradicts a major United Nations study and challenges a key argument of skeptics of manmade climate change. Temperatures since 2000 have risen at...
Green Bond Wave Ahead of Climate Change Conference in Paris?
Jun 4 2015 // This is the first of a two-part column on green bonds. The second installment will include interviews with Axa, QBE and Zurich. Ahead the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, also called COP21 or...
AXA Plans to Sell Coal Assets, Citing Concerns About Climate Change
May 22 2015 // France’s largest insurer will scrap holdings in coal companies because of concerns about climate change, broadening support for the fossil-fuel divestment movement to a major mainstream investor. AXA SA Chief...
Insurance Pros: What Are Your Thoughts on Climate Change?
May 21 2015 // President Barack Obama and potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush declared a war of words within the war on climate change this week. The two diametrically opposed politicians’ verbal clash in the media may be a...
Weather Derivatives Backed By Climate Change Clamor
May 7 2015 // According to William W. Windle, managing director of Munich Re Trading LLC, business has been brisk lately in the weather derivatives market. There are many reasons for this, and while Windle may wince at any suggestion...
California Governor’s Aggressive Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Apr 30 2015 // California would aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under an ambitious plan announced by Gov. Jerry Brown. The governor’s executive order goes further than a federal proposal also aiming to curb...
Connecticut Governor Creates Climate Change Panel
Apr 24 2015 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is creating a new council to make sure the state of Connecticut meets its goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Marking Earth Day on April 22, Malloy said Connecticut has...
Earth Day, Climate Change and Drought
Apr 23 2015 // As much of the U.S. and the rest of the planet celebrated Earth Day, California politicos and leaders squabbled over how best to deal with the ongoing drought – which may or may not be caused by climate change, depending...
Climate Change to Worsen Nat Cat Impact on Creditworthiness: S&P Report
Apr 21 2015 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued a report warning that, “while recent history shows that natural catastrophes may have not been a major rating factor on corporate credit quality in the past,...
CEOs of 43 Companies, Including Allianz, Call for Action on Climate Change
Apr 17 2015 // The bosses of 43 companies including Ikea, Dow Chemical Co. and HSBC Holdings plc called for swift action on climate change, a sign businesses are prepared for a United Nations deal this year on limiting fossil fuel...
Floods & Drought Amid Climate Change Cost Global Economy Billions: Oxford
Apr 14 2015 // A new report on water insecurity says floods and drought amid climate change and a lack of investment in reliable water supplies is weighing on the global economy by tens of billions of dollars a year. “Water is...
How Another Country’s Insurance Industry Is Facing Climate Change
Apr 9 2015 // Tim Grafton, chief executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand, lives in a country surrounded by risk on all sides, and he’s unabashed in his efforts to use flooding events, frequent storms or other...
FEMA Makes Waves with Guidelines on Climate Change
Apr 6 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making some waves with a new requirement that forces states to take into account the possible impact of climate change in their risk assessments before they can receive certain...
New FEMA Guidelines Force the Climate Change Issue
Mar 26 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making some waves with a new requirement that forces states to take into account the possible impact of climate change in their risk assessments before they can receive certain...
China Faces Severe Threats From Climate Change: Beijing-Based Meteorologist
Mar 25 2015 // Chinese officials don’t usually go into detail on the challenges that climate change poses for the world’s most populous and largest carbon-emitting country. But in a speech on March 23, a top meteorologist...
IPCC Releases Complete Synthesis Report
Mar 19 2015 // The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced that it has launched the complete version of the Climate Change Synthesis Report, the concluding instalment of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). As its name...
Pacific Nations to Highlight Cyclone Pam, Insurance Pool in Climate Talks
Mar 17 2015 // Pacific Islands devastated by Cyclone Pam over the weekend will be using the disaster to drive home the need for a globally funded insurance pool to aid in the recovery from such events when they attend climate-change...
Insurance Industry Presence Supports UN’s Disaster Risk Reduction Quest
Mar 16 2015 // The re/insurance industry has answered the call presented by the UN’s Disaster Risk Reduction initiative, as industry representatives gathered with others to attend the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk...
