Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fla. Searches for New Beginning Amid Continuing Insurance, Climate Woes
Apr 5 2007 // Canceled insurance policies and skyrocketing rates plaguing the state since the active hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 are a premonition of Florida’s future under a warming climate, an insurance expert told the...
Florida Climate Change Web Site Unveiled, “Conversations” Begin
Apr 3 2007 // In anticipation of this week’s “Conversations on Climate Change,” Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Charles Bronson unveiled an official Web...
Neb. Director Says Industry is “Poster Child” on Global Warming
Mar 21 2007 // Insurance Commissioner L. Tim Wagner has spent close to 40 years in the insurance industry, the last nine as the appointed Nebraska regulator. He takes his role seriously and believes the insurance industry has a real...
Allianz Joins Institutions to Urge Congress to Act on Climate Change
Mar 20 2007 // Money talks and $4 trillion talks very loudly. So loud in fact that a number of institutional investors, who manage a total of $4 trillion in assets, hope to get the attention of U.S. lawmakers. Their goal is to convince...
Tim Wagner, Nebraska, Director of Insurance
Mar 12 2007 // Director of Insurance L. Tim Wagner has spent close to 40 years in the insurance industry, the last nine as the appointed Nebraska regulator. He takes his role seriously and believes the insurance industry has a real...
Munich Re Releases 2006 Nat Cat Report; Focus on Climate Change
Mar 8 2007 // In a just released report – “Topics Geo — Natural catastrophes 2006” – Munich Re maintains that “continuing unfavorable natural climate cycle and additional effects of global warming will...
Marsh CEO Opens National Oil Company Conference with a Warning
Feb 27 2007 // Brian Storms, Chairman and CEO of Marsh Inc, speaking at the opening of the Marsh National Oil Company conference in Dubai, told delegates: “The world’s desire for environmentally-friendly energy sources...
Allianz, Munich Re Endorse Global Roundtable Climate Change Accords
Feb 21 2007 // Two of the world’s largest insurers – Allianz AG and Munich Re – announced that they have signed on to the joint declaration issued by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change (GRoCC) in New York City on...
Willis Taps into Supercomputer to Analyze Climate Change, Nat Cats
Feb 13 2007 // The Willis Research Network (WRN) “has joined forces with internationally renowned universities to harness the immense power of the NEC Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan to help insurers understand the frequency and...
Lloyd’s climbs on the climate change bandwagon
Feb 12 2007 // There’s little doubt that the world is getting warmer. But this raises more questions. To what extent are greenhouse gasses, particularly CO2, responsible? Will the warming trend continue? Are there any effective...
Lloyd’s climbs on the climate change bandwagon
Feb 11 2007 // There’s little doubt that the world is getting warmer. But this raises more questions. To what extent are greenhouse gasses, particularly CO2, responsible? Will the warming trend continue? Are there any effective...
RMS Creates ‘Climate Change’ Position to Evaluate Impact on Risks
Feb 5 2007 // Newark, Calif.-based – Risk Management Solutions, a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced the appointment of Dr. Celine Herweijer to the position of “Principal...
IPCC Climate Change Report: Human Activities Linked to Global Warming
Feb 2 2007 // After a full week of presentations and discussions in Paris, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) adopted the Summary for Policymakers of the first volume of “Climate Change 2007”, also known as...
RMS Adds Herweijer as Principal Scientist, Future Climate
Feb 1 2007 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has appointed Dr. Celine Herweijer to the position of principal scientist, future climate....
Biggest U.S. Companies Fail to Disclose Climate Change Risks to Investors, Study Says
Jan 31 2007 // Despite growing financial losses in various business sectors from climate change, over half of the nation’s 500 largest publicly traded companies are doing a poor job of disclosing climate change risks to their...
Allianz Lecturers Urge EU Lead on Climate Change
Jan 30 2007 // The global debate on Climate Change has gone from a sideshow to the main event, taking over the front pages of many newspapers. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Conference, currently taking place in...
Mich. Attorney General Urges Judge to Toss Calif. Global Warming Suit
Jan 23 2007 // Michigan’s attorney general has joined six automakers in asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute...
Insurer Trade Group Launches Global Warming Web Site
Jan 18 2007 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has unveiled a new website, www.climateandinsurance.org , to help address the increasing concerns about climate change and its impact on the property/casualty...
Congress Prepares to Tackle Global Warming Legislation
Jan 15 2007 // Potential presidential rivals Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama are joining with newly independent Sen. Joe Lieberman on a plan they say would reduce global-warming gases by two-thirds over the...
U.N. Climate Expert Says Leadership Needed on Global Warming
Jan 15 2007 // The chief of the United Nations’ effort against climate change said this week there is widespread recognition of the seriousness of global warming but a lack of leadership has created a sense of helplessness. Yvo de...
