Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2007: Climate Change Dominates Debate While Soft Market Hits Entire P/C Market
Dec 23 2007 // The debate over climate change captured the world’s attention, including the insurance industry’s, in 2007, while major hurricanes spared the United States’ coastline. The soft market took hold of...
UN Climate Chief Says US-EU Deadlock over Emissions Cuts Threatens Summit
Dec 14 2007 // The U.N. climate chief warned on Thursday that a deadlock between the United States and the European Union over pollution cuts threatened to derail talks aimed at launching negotiations for a new global warming...
Study Finds Fault with Global Climate Change Models
Dec 13 2007 // A new study comparing the composite output of 22 leading global climate models with actual climate data finds that the models do an unsatisfactory job of mimicking climate change in key portions of the atmosphere. This...
Coastal Flood Peril Study: $3 Trillion Today – $35 Trillion by 2070
Dec 6 2007 // An exhaustive study of the threat posed by coastal flooding warns that “as many as 150 million people in the world’s major cities could be reliant on flood defenses by 2070 – more than three times the 40...
New Report Reveals Future Exposure to Coastal Flood in Key Cities
Dec 4 2007 // As many as 150 million people in the world’s major cities could be reliant on flood defenses by 2070 – more than three times the 40 million people today – as a result of climate change and urban...
Research & Markets Analyzes Climate Change Threat to Insurers
Nov 26 2007 // Dublin-based Research and Markets announced the addition of “Global Warming & the Insurance Industry” to their offering. The study concentrates on the possible effects of the increase in the average...
‘Warming of the Climate System is Unequivocal’ Says UN Panel
Nov 19 2007 // “We have met the enemy and he is us.” When he put those words into the mouth of his cartoon character Pogo in the 60’s, the late Walt Kelly wasn’t thinking about global warming. But they aptly...
Climate Change Panel – Esteemed, But Perhaps Too Conservative
Nov 15 2007 // They are seen as the gurus of global warming, and their reports are accepted almost as the gospel of climate science. Esteem for the panel of scientists was immortalized when it won this year’s Nobel Peace prize. But...
Report: Global Warming to Worsen Coastal Insurance Woes
Nov 5 2007 // Homeowners and businesses are finding it harder to afford, or even obtain, insurance in coastal states after catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina, and global warming is going to make the situation worse, according to a...
Climate Change May Increase Wildfires in Great Basin
Nov 4 2007 // Climate change is likely to increase the number of wildfires fueled by invasive weeds that are spreading throughout the Great Basin, researchers recently told a U.S. Senate subcommittee. Researchers described a potential...
Report: Insurance Initiatives Tackling Climate Change Reach New High
Oct 18 2007 // Hundreds of new insurance initiatives, including green building credits, drought-protection in developing countries and incentives for investing in renewable energy and carbon emissions trading are being offered to tackle...
Gore, UN Climate Panel Share Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Change Work
Oct 12 2007 // He may have lost the 2000 presidential election, but he has won the admiration of the world. Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been jointly awarded this...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Already Exceed ‘Worst-case’ Scenario
Oct 10 2007 // Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate...
Swiss Re Launches Climate Program
Sep 27 2007 // Swiss Re announced the launch of its “Climate Adaptation Development Program” (CADP) at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 meeting, which took place in New York on Sept.26-28. The Program is “designed to...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Climate Change Tops UN Agenda
Sep 24 2007 // September marks the end of summer and ushers in a time of reflection. The working world returns from summer vacations and begins functioning on a heightened level, as the end of the year draws near. Problems that have been...
Climate Change Expert Predicts Hawaii Hurricanes To Get Stronger
Sep 18 2007 // Nobody can say how many hurricanes will hit Hawaii each year, according to a climate change expert, but there’s no doubt they’ll get worse. “I can’t tell you there will be more of them,”...
Lloyd’s Signs on to ‘ClimateWise’
Sep 14 2007 // Lloyd’s announced that it is joining a number of leading insurers, reinsurers and brokers in signing on to the “ClimateWise principles.” Lloyd’s described the initiative as a “major...
Industry Needs to Address Climate Change Says F&C Report
Sep 13 2007 // A new study from the London-based F&C Asset Management Group sounds a warning to the insurance community that the effects of climate change could have devastating consequences. “The magnitude and frequency of...
