Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Survey Shows 8-in-10 Americans Believe in Climate Change
Dec 2 2014 // More than eight-in-10 Americans now believe the climate is changing – although they place that concern beneath issues like global political instability, economic crisis or a pandemic. Munich Re America’s inaugural...
IPCC Publishes Full Report on Climate Change Mitigation Options
Dec 1 2014 // Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the full version of its contribution “Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change” to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in its...
Some Future Effects of Climate Change Are Inevitable: World Bank
Nov 24 2014 // Some future impacts of climate change, such as more extremes of heat and sea level rise, are unavoidable even if governments act fast to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said. Past and predicted emissions from...
Florida Gov. Scott Facing Rising Seas, Climate Change Politics
Nov 17 2014 // When Florida Governor Rick Scott won re-election Nov. 4, he triumphed over both his Democratic challenger and California billionaire Thomas Steyer, who spent $20 million painting him as a climate-change denier. Scott, a...
Climate Change Report Paints Portrait of Dystopian Future
Nov 17 2014 // A major climate change report issued this month offers dire predictions, a call to action to government and industry and it assesses the blame for a rapidly changing and more volatile world on mankind. The United...
Crop Of Climate Corps May Bloom in Ag Insurance Landscape
Nov 13 2014 // You can still shake your climate moneymaker. Climate change certainly didn’t carry the day in the November elections. It shouldn’t be news to anyone that the topic ushered in few if any victories for those who...
Climate Change Report Paints Portrait of Dystopian Future
Nov 3 2014 // A major climate change report issued over the weekend offers dire predictions, a call to action to government and industry and it assesses the blame for a rapidly changing and more volatile world on mankind. The United...
Time Running Short to Avert Worst Effects of Climate Change
Nov 3 2014 // Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit risks of irreversible damage, a U.N. report said on Sunday. The 40-page synthesis,...
Regulator Takes Focus on Climate Change Preparedness
Oct 30 2014 // With a calm demeanor and in a somewhat scientific tone he doesn’t mind using while explaining his stance on something, Mike Kreidler stood by his decision to call out the insurance industry and the rest of the...
Boston Mayor: City Made Significant Strides in Preparing for Climate Change
Oct 30 2014 // Boston has made significant strides in preparing for major natural disasters, rising sea levels and other impacts to the ever-changing climate, Mayor Martin Walsh said on the two-year anniversary of Superstorm...
NYC Flood Zone Properties’ Value Rose to $129B Under New FEMA Maps
Oct 29 2014 // The assessed value of properties in New York City that lie within Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) newly proposed 100-year floodplain maps is $129 billion, more than double the value under previous...
Human Factor, Culture Often Overlooked in Climate Debate, Expert Says
Oct 29 2014 // When Hurricane Sandy came, Deborah Star Reed stayed home. Irene, the year before, had been over- hyped. Her 1919 concrete house in New York was left unscathed by Donna in 1960 and the “Big One” of 1938. So, on...
Climate Change Represents Risks and Opportunities for Corporations
Oct 27 2014 // Danish climate scientist and TV weatherman Jesper Theilgaard told risk managers from some of Europe’s leading companies that they should not treat climate change as a “doomsday” scenario. Instead, he...
Climate Scientists Forecast Severe Winters for Europe
Oct 27 2014 // The decline in Arctic sea ice has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe and Asia in the past decade, according to researchers in Japan. Sea-ice melt in the Arctic, Barents and Kara seas since 2004 has made more...
U.S., EU Urge More Policy Guidance, Specifics in UN Climate Report
Oct 24 2014 // The U.S. and European Union are pushing for a stronger explanation about the dangers of climate change and the consequences of failing to stem fossil-fuel emissions in the UN’s most extensive report on global...
Climate Change Report Slams Insurers for ‘Profound Lack of Preparedness’
Oct 22 2014 // A report on the insurance industry released Wednesday shows “a profound lack of preparedness in addressing climate-related risks and opportunities.” Insurance industry representatives immediately criticized the...
Eight P&C Insurers Get Top Marks for Climate Change Risk Management
Oct 22 2014 // Munich Re and ACE Ltd. are among insurers that are best prepared to manage risks related to climate change, a lobbying group said. The nine insurers that were found to be integrating climate change into underwriting and...
States’ Efforts on Climate Change Adaptation: Half Full or Half Empty?
Oct 16 2014 // Who hates that glass-half-full analogy? I’m guessing more than half of you, but let’s not let that stand in the way of using the clichéd-to-death philosophical quandary to illustrate a point being made by a...
PwC: Climate Change Is Risk and Business Opportunity
Oct 15 2014 // Competition and regulation push companies to take action to protect themselves from the effects of climate change, not climate science, Jon Williams, partner at global consultancy firm PwC told the Reuters Global Climate...
Integrity of ‘Green Bond’ Market Could Be at Risk
Oct 15 2014 // The integrity of the fast-growing “green bond” market is at risk unless a clear definition of what passes for green can be agreed, Zurich Insurance’s investment chief told the Reuters Global Climate...
