climate change
Two in five UK small businesses already impacted by climate change
Two-fifths of UK small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have already been affected by climate change, with a third worried about the impact climate...
Climate change a pressing issue for risk managers
Analysing and mitigating the effects of climate change, such as floods and windstorms, have become pressing issues for risk managers, according to Gaëtan Lefèvre,...
Climate change : before the flood
According to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, temperatures are not rising as quickly as feared. Does this mean we have been given the all-clear?
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Swiss Re : better risk management can secure future energy supplies and reduce the impact of climate change
Swiss Re's latest report, Building a Sustainable Energy Future: Risks and Opportunities, describes the impact of the changing global energy mix on climate change....
Climate change now seen as a question of global security
Once viewed as an issue of interest only to greens or academics, the threat posed by climate change to security is now eyed with...
Europe drought leading to more property damage
Increasing occurences of drought have led to a jump in European insurance claims for damage to homes owing to subsiding soil, a study by...
Geneva Association Secretary General Looks Ahead at Insurance Issues in 2011 and Beyond
Responding to media calls, Patrick M. Liedtke, Secretary General and Managing Director of leading international insurance think tank, The Geneva Association, today outlined key...
Short news : Severn Barrage abandoned
The RSPB has welcomed the Government's decision to abandon plans to build the Severn Barrage. Mark Robins, senior policy officer for the RSPB in...
Report : Innovative insurance solutions against rising costs of climate risks
Innovative insurance solutions hold the key to driving climate adaptation initiatives in the developing world and securing the development prospects of communities threatened by...
Report : UK needs to prepare for climate change
Insurance costs will rise for home and business insurances if Britain does nothing to prepare for the impact of climate change.
"The UK must start...
Life longevity problem in Asia ‘serious as climate change’
Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change,...
2009 a ‘benign’ year of natural disasters
"We made it through the year with a minimum of natural disasters", German re-insurer Munich Re said on Tuesday, but climate change still threatens...
Tony Blair helps Zurich Financial Services for £2 million
According to the Sunday Times, Tony Blair has provided some further details of his extensive business interests during an interview in which he described...
Munich RE’s CEO, Nikolaus von Bomhard stunned by Copenhagen outcome
Nikolaus von Bomhard the Chief Executive Officer of Munich Re, today commented the outcome of the Copenhagen summit outcome. The outcome - a decision...
Britons, it’s time to act on climate change
As the Copenhagen summit continues this week, the head of a campaign to get Britons to cut their carbon emissions insists we can all...
World climate summit in Copenhagen
The world climate summit in Copenhagen is the 15th annual meeting of the 192 signatory states of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change....
Munich RE shows that in particular poor countries are severely affected by climate change
Bangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras were the countries most severely affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, according to a climate change risk...
British firms fail to take climate risk seriously
British companies are failing to take the strategic implications of climate change seriously and are missing out on investment opportunities, a study sponsored by...
Melting icecaps to cause massive damage in port cities: WWF
Flooding in the world's major port cities caused by melting icecaps could cause up to 28 trillion dollars (18 trillion euros) in damage in...
ABI warns of rising global temperatures impacts on property insurance in the UK
Rising global temperatures will put the heat on insurance as flood costs rise - new research from the ABI
A rise in global temperatures could...
