Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report Identifies More Than 180 Products to Handle Climate Change
Aug 18 2006 // Dozens of new insurance products are quietly emerging to tackle climate change and fast-rising weather losses – but insurance companies need to do more of the same to minimize losses and make the most of...
U.K. Climate Study Warns of Increased Disaster Risk for Next 200 Years
Aug 15 2006 // In one of the most somber assessments yet of the consequences of global warming, scientists at the U.K.’s University of Bristol (http://www.bris.ac.uk.) warned: “As temperatures rise with global warming, an...
Report Warns of More Frequent Coastal Flooding and Rising Sea Levels
Aug 15 2006 // The California Climate Action Team has released a summary report of 17 scientific studies examining the potential impacts of climate change on California. Heat-trapping gases threaten to cause more frequent coastal floods,...
Study to Look at Extreme Heat’s Impact on Californians’ Health
Aug 10 2006 // More than 160 deaths blamed on California’s recent heat wave prompted officials to begin a study of the impact of extreme heat and global warming on the health of Californians. The state Department of Health Services...
Canadian Business Ill-Prepared for Climate Change Risk, Lloyd’s Warns
Jul 12 2006 // Canadian business is vulnerable to climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes, Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Peter Levene warned in a July 11 speech to the Vancouver Board of...
Lloyd’s “360 Risk Project” Conference Tackles Climate Change
Jul 7 2006 // Lloyd’s new 360 Risk Project is dedicated to examining issues that affect the insurance industry, and its first conference took on today’s most far-reaching and important issue – the debate over climate...
Supreme Court to Hear States’ Case Against EPA Over Climate Change
Jun 28 2006 // Running for president, George W. Bush said he was ready to regulate carbon dioxide. But in early 2001, shortly after taking office, he changed his mind. It would be too expensive to force reductions of the leading...
Lloyd’s forecast for Northeast: Storms, global warming threats are real
Jun 19 2006 // The prospect of another nasty hurricane season has everyone in the insurance industry braced for a white-knuckle ride. The spectre of a hurricane hitting a major Northeast population center is hardly the stuff of Hollywood...
Washington Commissioner Hosts Summit on Climate Change
Jun 12 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler will convene a summit on the impacts of climate change on the insurance industry and insurance consumers on Thursday, June 15 in Seattle. “Insurance is a $24 billion...
It’s not easy being green
Jun 5 2006 // “It’s not easy being green.” — Kermit the Frog The environment and going “green” has been the editorial focus of a slew of consumer publications from Time to Vanity Fair recently....
Editor’s Note: It’s not easy being green
Jun 5 2006 // The environment and going “green” has been the editorial focus of a slew of consumer publications from Time to Vanity Fair recently. I’ve had a constant reminder for several years, since my husband works...
Australian Climate Study Finds Stronger Evidence of Global Warming
May 26 2006 // A report compiled by the Australian government’s Department of the Environment and Heritage – Australian Greenhouse Office, concludes: “Evidence that the Earth is warming has become much stronger since...
AIG Adopts Policy on Climate Change
May 17 2006 // American International Group has joined the ranks of major insurers committed to doing something about the increased risks the industry faces due to climate change. In a newly issued statement, the company said it...
EEA Report Says ‘Tackling Climate Change’ Will Save Lives, $15 Billion
May 15 2006 // A brief status report from the European Environment Agency (EEA)notes that “tackling climate change will improve Europe’s air quality, cut premature deaths and could save €12 billion [$15.4 billion] annually...
Getting on the green wagon
May 8 2006 // “It’s not easy being green.” — Kermit the Frog Maybe it’s because of Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, but the environment and going “green” has been the editorial focus of a slew...
Mayfield: ‘2006 hurricane season CAN be worse than 2005’
May 8 2006 // With more than 55 million people living in coastal communities, the nation must learn its lesson from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and prepare now for what will happen after June 1, according to Max Mayfield,...
International poll finds rising concern among 30 countries over global warming
May 8 2006 // A 30-country poll finds large majorities in all countries believe climate change is a serious problem. No country has more than one in five saying it is not a serious problem. The poll of 33,237 people from all major...
Mayfield: ‘2006 hurricane season CAN be worse than 2005’
May 8 2006 // With more than 55 million people living in coastal communities, the nation must learn its lesson from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and prepare now for what will happen after June 1, according to Max Mayfield,...
Editor’s Note: Getting on the green wagon
May 8 2006 // Green seems to be shaping up as the symbolic and operable color of this millennium. Maybe it’s because of Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, but the environment and going “green” has been the editorial...
International poll finds rising concern among 30 countries over global warming
May 8 2006 // A 30-country poll finds large majorities in all countries believe climate change is a serious problem. No country has more than one in five saying it is not a serious problem. The poll of 33,237 people from all major...
