All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...