Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Obama Vows Climate Action Despite Financial Crisis
Nov 19 2008 // Barack Obama said Tuesday that the United States would “engage vigorously” in climate change talks when he is president, and he pledged to work to reduce emissions sharply by 2020, despite the financial...
Young Brit IPODs are Broke Says a CII Report
Nov 2 2008 // ING picks up a $13 billion cash injection; Climate change for fund managers They aren’t the Apple kind of iPod’s; they’re 18 to 34 year old Brits, who are “Insecure, Pressurized, Over-taxed and...
Pennsylvania Insurance Dept to Hold Climate Change Conference
Oct 30 2008 // Insurance leaders, policymakers, financial and scientific experts will meet in Harrisburg next week to discuss how climate change will impact many segments of business and industry, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel...
China Says Greenhouse Gas Emissions Catch up with U.S.
Oct 29 2008 // China’s greenhouse gas emissions have caught up with the United States and will not fall any time soon, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday, while warning of a huge economic blow from global warming. The...
RMS to Provide Data for ‘Specialist Climate Change Research’
Oct 14 2008 // Risk Management Solutions announced that it is “partnering in an innovative program launched by HSBC to provide fund managers globally with direct access to specialist climate change research. “As the present...
Lloyd’s, RMS Coastal Flood Study Urges Adapting to Changing Conditions
Sep 10 2008 // A new report published by Lloyd’s, as part of its “360 project,” and Risk Management Solutions (RMS), warns that “without adaptation, insurance losses from coastal flooding for high-risk properties...
Catlin Sponsors Major Arctic Survey
Sep 4 2008 // The Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited announced that it is sponsoring a major scientific expedition to capture vitally needed data for scientists studying the impact of global warming on the Arctic ice cap. “The...
LIU Creates D&O Coverage to Protect Against Global Warming Litigation
Jul 31 2008 // Liberty International Underwriters, a part of Liberty Mutual Group, has created Private Advantage Company Combo policy to provide broad private company management coverage for directors and officers, employment practices...
Research Model Helps Gauge Storms’ Intensity with Climate Change
Jul 9 2008 // A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth’s surface. The new...
Sustainability Risks Create Challenges for Actuaries
Jul 8 2008 // Sustainability risks are one of the most critical emerging risk areas of the 21st century and actuaries will need to develop mitigation and financing strategies for handling them. “Sustainability risks are going to...
New ‘Carbon Revolution’ Urged to Slow Global Warming
Jun 26 2008 // The world needs a shift as radical as the Industrial Revolution to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while safeguarding economic growth, the McKinsey Global Institute said on Thursday. Its study said that a modern...
Swiss Re Signs on to G-8 Climate Change Recommendations
Jun 23 2008 // Swiss Re’s CEO Jacques Aigrain has signed the climate change recommendations of the Group of Eight (G8) leaders. “The document outlines a new, more environmentally effective and economically efficient long-term...
Insurance Companies Face Global Warming Claims
Jun 16 2008 // Corporations Exposed to Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions The industry is about to enter an era of global warming insurance claims. Scientists have been warning about the impact global warming could have if greenhouse...
New Round of Climate Talks Opens in Germany with Uphill Battle
Jun 3 2008 // Some 2,000 delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialist agencies opened a two-week conference Monday to start tackling the details of a new global warming agreement slated to take effect after 2012. The meeting...
Insurance Commissioners, Fireman’s Fund Execs Address Climate Change
Jun 2 2008 // Representatives from the nation’s insurance regulator community adopted a climate change white paper at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Summer Meeting in San Francisco on Monday, June 2, 2008. The...
Insurance Companies Face Global Warming Claims
Jun 2 2008 // Corporations exposed to liability for greenhouse gas emissions The industry is about to enter an era of global warming insurance claims. Scientists have been warning about the impact global warming could have if greenhouse...
RMS Becomes Partner in Climate Change Initiative
May 22 2008 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has become a partner in the Resilient Coasts Initiative, a collaboration led by Ceres and the Heinz Center. RMS will contribute technical expertise on climate-driven...
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Honor Catastrophe Model Pioneer Clark
May 22 2008 // Karen Clark, who developed the first hurricane catastrophe model, has been recognized by a climate change group that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Clark, president and chief executive officer of Karen Clark & Co. in...
International First Quarter Earnings Gone With the Credit Crunch
May 19 2008 // Myanmar’s disaster and a 100-year, $800 billion plan to combat climate change The cruelest months for many insurers, reinsurers and brokers, were undoubtedly the end of April and the beginning of May when they...
New Study Calls for Broad Climate Fight, Not Just Gas Emission Cuts
May 8 2008 // An assault on climate change on many fronts makes good economic sense but will be money badly spent if the world focuses exclusively on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a new study said on Thursday. A 100-year package...
