All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2014 // Farmers Insurance Group, which filed nine class actions in May against nearly 200 communities in the Chicago area, is withdrawing its lawsuit.The suit accused the Illinois municipalities of failing to prepare for severe...
Jun 9 2014 // Catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance have surged to record levels this year thanks to the continuing influx of alternative capital into the reinsurance market, leaving credit analysts and...
Jun 5 2014 // Global warming is causing trillions of dollars of damage to coral reefs, aggravating risks to tropical small island states threatened by rising sea levels, a U.N. report said on Thursday.The rise in sea levels off some...
Jun 4 2014 // Farmers Insurance Group, which filed nine class actions in May against nearly 200 communities in the Chicago area, is withdrawing its lawsuit.The suit accused the Illinois municipalities of failing to prepare for severe...
Jun 4 2014 // The European Union touted its success in cutting greenhouse gases at U.N. talks on climate change on Wednesday, where a U.S. plan to cut power plant emissions has lifted hopes for a global deal in 2015.An adviser to the...
Jun 4 2014 // Environmental groups said executives of coal, oil, gas and other “fossil fuel” companies could be held liable and risk lawsuits if they support groups that deny climate change and resist policies to fight it.In...
Jun 2 2014 // Climate change is in the here and now, according to a massive new report.The White House’s National Climate Assessment report is part of President Barack Obama’s effort to prepare the nation for the impacts of...
May 27 2014 // Adapting to climate change is such a daunting task that it can be hard to know where, or how, to begin. Here’s one answer: in southeastern Florida, with yellow foam earplugs.The plugs are needed to keep out the din...
May 27 2014 // The super-political action committee financed by billionaire and former money manager Tom Steyer will try to raise climate change as an election issue in four U.S. Senate races and three gubernatorial contests this year,...
May 22 2014 // Despite risking offense to non-believers, Hank Watkins didn’t hesitate when he was asked if climate change was upon us.Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America, talked about an extensive report Lloyd’s of...
May 21 2014 // Sixty-six chief executives of the world’s largest re/insurers have confirmed their commitment to The Geneva Association’s Climate Risk Statement―a set of guiding principles on the substantial role insurance...
May 20 2014 // A report – “Are Insurers Prepared For The Extreme Weather Climate Change May Bring?” – from Standard & Poor’s notes that “whether or not a direct result of climate change, the number...
May 19 2014 // A major insurance company is accusing dozens of localities in Illinois of failing to prepare for severe rains and flooding in lawsuits that are the first in what could be a wave of litigation over who should be liable for...
May 19 2014 // Climate change is in the here and now, according to a massive report issued earlier this month.The White House’s National Climate Assessment report is part of President Barack Obama’s effort to prepare the...
May 9 2014 // Surveying the remnants of nature’s destructive power in the country’s midsection, President Barack Obama on May 7 pledged to residents of tornado-ravaged Arkansas communities that their government will stand...
May 8 2014 // “Climate change is real and we need to factor it into all future catastrophe modelling” – that’s the conclusion of a new report published today by Lloyd’s. The report: ‘Catastrophe Modelling...
May 6 2014 // Climate change is in the here and now, according to a massive report issued on Tuesday.The White House’s National Climate Assessment report is part of President Barack Obama’s effort to prepare the nation for...
Apr 23 2014 // A newly published study from Rutgers University in New Jersey shows that most state residents strongly support government programs aimed at lowering the likelihood of severe damage from future hurricanes. The study also...
Apr 21 2014 // Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years, according to a new study.The number of wildfires over 1,000 acres in size in the region stretching from Nebraska...
Apr 21 2014 // The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued its latest report, which states that “the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The world, in many...