Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
IPCC Report Finds CO2 Storage Could Reduce Climate Change Effects
Sep 27 2005 // Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have focused the world’s attention on the global warming phenomenon. It seems clear that worldwide temperatures, especially those in the oceans, have risen over the last decade. Whether...
Climate Change Poses Major Threat to U.S. Insurance Industry
Sep 19 2005 // Report Warns of Dire Consequences Unless Industry, Government Act Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that U.S. insurers, government and consumers are at great risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other...
Heat Waves Could Hurt California’s Energy Grid
Sep 19 2005 // More frequent and intense heat waves that are expected in California during the next 100 years could overburden the state’s electric utility grid, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
Climate Change Poses Major Threat to U.S. Insurance Industry
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that U.S. insurers, government and consumers are at great risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other weather-related events, according to a report by a Boston-based investor and...
Hurricanes Getting Stronger Even as Worldwide Total Drops
Sep 16 2005 // The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at the Georgia...
New Report Warns of Rising Threat to Industry from Climate Change
Sep 8 2005 // Hurricane Katrina is a reminder to the U.S. insurance industry, companies, governments and the general public that all are at risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other weather-related events due to climate...
R&M Issues Climate Change Report
Sep 1 2005 // Dublin-based Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Climate Change and the Insurance Industry” to their offering. “The 1st Edition of Climate Change and the Insurance Industry report is a...
Insurance Industry’s Share of Weather-Related Losses Rising, Researcher Says
Aug 22 2005 // Also, Majority of Weather Losses Tied to Smaller Events, Not Larger Catastrophes The insurance industry’s share of the world’s total economic losses from weather-related catastrophes is rising and 60 percent of...
Insurance Industry’s Share of Weather-Related Losses Rising, Researcher Says
Aug 22 2005 // The insurance industry’s share of the world’s total economic losses from weather-related catastrophes is rising and 60 percent of these weather-related losses are attributable to small events as distinct from...
Allianz Cornhill CEO Warns Industry ‘Cannot Afford to Ignore Climate Change’
Aug 9 2005 // Andrew Torrance, CEO of Allianz Cornhill in the U.K., has explained why companies cannot afford to ignore the effects of climate change. As reported on the Allianz Group Website – www.allianz.com – Torrance...
MIT Hurricane Study: Global Warming ‘Pumping Up’ Destructive Power
Aug 1 2005 // Global warming is pumping up the destructive power of hurricanes and typhoons, a new study published by Kerry Emanuel, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology hurricane specialist suggests. Emanuel’s analysis of data...
Insurance Community Concerns Mount Over Climate Change Debate
Jul 18 2005 // To paraphrase an old adage: “Nothing concentrates the overall mind of the property/casualty insurance community as much as the approaching certainty of large loss events.” So, it’s no wonder that many...
ABI Study Finds “Extreme Weather” Could Raise Losses to $27 Billion
Jun 30 2005 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has released a ground-breaking report, “Financial Risks of Climate Change,” which shows that the worldwide costs of major storms is likely to increase by as much as...
Allianz Sees Impact of Climate Change on Nat Cats
Jun 29 2005 // Joachim Faber, a member of the Board of Management for Germany’s Allianz Group and CEO of its asset management arm, told interviewers on the company’s Website: “We expect climate change to influence the...
Allianz Investigates Consequences of Climate Change
Mar 14 2005 // The Web site of Germany’s Allianz (http://www.allianz.com/) features an interview with two of the company’s climate experts, Matthias Klawa of Allianz Reinsurance and Olav Bogenrieder of Allianz Versicherung,...
Kyoto, Scripps Study, Put Greenhouse Gases in Global Warming Spotlight
Mar 7 2005 // The week of Feb. 14-20, 2005 may have been a turning point in the debate over global warming. Either from incisive planning or pure serendipity, the “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at...
Scripps Study Finds Greenhouse Gases Proximate Cause of Ocean Warming
Feb 21 2005 // Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues have produced the first clear scientific evidence that human activity-and very little else- is warming...
Kyoto Protocol Comes into Force; Debate on Global Warming Continues
Feb 17 2005 // The “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses, has come into force seven years after it was established. So far 141 countries, accounting for 55 percent of greenhouse...
Emerging Risk Symposium to Focus on Global Warming
Feb 4 2005 // The Insurance Leadership Institute, a study group sponsored by GE Insurance Solutions, announced that the conference, to be held February 23, will analyze the effects of hurricanes and global warming on the Insurance...
Climate Change Convention Sounds Warnings on Weather and Claims
Dec 17 2004 // The phrase “Climate Change” has taken its place in the world’s lexicon alongside “discrimination,” “colonialism,” “nationalism,” “iron curtain,”...
