Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S&P Report Says Insurers’ Climate Change Concerns are Real
May 23 2007 // A new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services – “Insurers Seek To Weather Changes In The Weather” – stresses that for the insurance industry, “climate’s impact...
S&P Hosts Teleconference on Global Warming Financial Impact Today
May 15 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services will host a teleconference today, May 15, 2007, outlining the findings from a 15 article series from the May 23rd issue of CreditWeek, its weekly outlook on credit risk. The...
Wash.’s Kreidler Testifies before Congress on Climate Change
May 10 2007 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on how insurance is impacted by climate change and what’s needed. Following...
Diplomats Begin Work on New Greenhouse Gas Accord
May 9 2007 // More than 1,000 diplomats have begun working on a new accord to control greenhouse gases, with developing countries calling for more money and expertise to help them fight the potentially catastrophic effects of global...
FERMA Sees Major Role for Risk Managers in Climate Change Battle
May 8 2007 // “Climate change will grow in importance for risk managers as the fight against global warming intensifies following the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” according to...
Climate Change: The potential insurance costs and what’s being done
May 7 2007 // Estimating the potential costs of future weather related events, linked to climate change, is, at best, an inexact science; there are just too many variables. Nonetheless, a picture is emerging that, whatever happens, the...
GAO report welcomed
May 7 2007 // The GAO’s report, commissioned by the Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sens. Joe Lieberman, an Independent (ex-Democrat) from Connecticut, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), has...
Catching up on climate change
May 7 2007 // What insurers in U.S. and worldwide are doing to address the effects of climate change Recent mega-catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast have brought increased attention to the issue of global climate...
10 Mass. ruling revives possibility of auto assigned risk plan
May 7 2007 // Commissioner Burnes surprises industry by keeping issue alive 10 Neighbors seek to drain N.Y. City’s reservoirs to stem flooding But city officials worry about the risk of a summer drought 10 Study questions...
Weather Report
May 7 2007 // Estimating the potential costs of future weather related events, linked to climate change, is, at best, an inexact science; there are just too many variables. Nonetheless, a picture is emerging that, whatever happens, the...
Catching up on climate change
May 7 2007 // Recent mega-catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast have brought increased attention to the issue of global climate change and its impact on the insurance industry. Even so, most insurers have just begun...
IPCC Delegates Hammer Out Climate Change Report in Thailand
May 4 2007 // International delegates struggled into the night Thursday to agree on ways of cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions-or face economic and environmental catastrophe caused by global warming. China has emerged as a key...
Developing Countries Want Assistance Offer Included in Climate Report
May 3 2007 // Developing countries are demanding that a key climate report being negotiated this week in the Thai capital recognize a troubling reality: they will be hit worse by a warming world and need plenty of help to deal with...
US, China Criticize Climate Change Action Study, as EU Calls for Action
May 2 2007 // The European Union called on developing countries Tuesday to take action to reduce greenhouse gases, as delegates worked to finalize a report detailing measures needed to save the planet. The draft report from the...
Climate Change Conference Calls for Quick Action to Reduce Global Warming
May 1 2007 // A major climate meeting opened Monday in the Thai capital with delegates debating how to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions that could threaten hundreds of millions with hunger and disease in the coming decades. For...
IPCC Conference Opens in Bangkok on How to Combat Global Warming
Apr 30 2007 // The costs of cutting greenhouse gases and who will pay for doing it are likely to be the key issues at a major U.N.-backed climate change meeting of scientists and diplomats in the Thai capital this week, participants said...
R&M ‘Carbon Finance’ Analysis Praised as ‘Timely’
Apr 19 2007 // Dublin-based market analysts Research and Markets notes that the firm’s recently released report, “Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change,” has received praise from industry...
Report: Army Corps Must Acknowledge Global Warming
Apr 16 2007 // The Army Corps of Engineers needs to acknowledge that the world is heating up and seas are rising to better protect the nation from flooding and hurricanes, according to a report by two environmental groups. The report,...
Lloyd’s 360 Report Examines Potential Effects of ‘Rapid Climate Change’
Apr 6 2007 // Lloyd’s third “360 report” does for the insurance industry what the IPCC report, see previous article, does for the whole world. It focuses attention on global warming/climate change in a way that cannot...
IPCC Report Confirms Widespread Impact of Global Warming
Apr 6 2007 // The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its “Fourth Assessment of Working Group II,” which updates past studies and sets forth the “current scientific understanding of impacts of...
