 | Aon Establishes New Agri-Fuels Group to Manage Renewable Fuels Industry Risks
Jan. 31, 2007 - With all signs pointing to an explosion in the bio-fuels marketplace, Aon's Agribusiness and Food Systems Group has created a new unit to focus on the specialized risks associated with the bio-fuels industry. more... |
 | NOAA Activates Newest Climate and Weather Supercomputers
Jan. 31, 2007 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today that it has activated its newest weather and climate supercomputers, increasing the computational might used for the nation's climate and weather forecasts by 320 percent. The new IBM machines process 14 trillion calculations per second at maximum performance and ingest more than 240 million global observations daily. more... |
| President Bush Offers Bold Energy Initiatives in State of the Union Address
President Bush has called for bold new energy initiatives in his State of the Union address that he says will result in a 20 percent reduction in U.S. gasoline usage over the next 10 years.
To help reach that goal, the President is advocating new average fuel economy standards for automobiles and a mandatory fuels standard of 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels by 2017. more... |
| New Consortium Created to Develop Standard Framework for Company Reporting of Climate Risks
Jan. 29, 2007 - The World Economic Forum announced today the formation of a new international partnership of seven organizations to establish a generally accepted framework for climate risk-related reporting by corporations. more... |
| Allianz Lecture: EU Leadership Needed for Climate Protection
Jan. 29, 2007 - Europe must take the lead in order to prevent a global climate catastrophe. That was the theme of the Allianz Lecture on "Europe's roadmap to global economic leadership," featuring EU commissioner Günter Verheugen, economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and climate expert Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. more... |
| World Economic Forum Participants Call for Action on Climate Change
Jan. 24, 2007 – Participants at this year’s World Economic Forum, Jan. 24-28 in Davos, Switzerland, held a spirited debate on what countries should do to confront the climate change issue. more... |
| Major Businesses and Environmental Leaders Unite to Call for Swift Action on Global Climate Change
Jan. 22, 2007 - A diverse group of U.S.-based businesses and leading environmental organizations today called on the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation to achieve significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. more... |
| NAMIC Launches Climate Change Website
Jan. 17, 2007 - The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) today unveiled a new website, www.climateandinsurance.org, to help address the increasing concerns about climate change and its impact on the property/casualty insurance industry. more... |
| Biden-Lugar Initiative Calls for American Leadership on Climate Change
Jan. 16, 2007 - In a bipartisan effort to protect our global climate, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), today joined with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), the Committee's ranking member, in introducing a Senate Resolution calling for the United States to return to international negotiations on climate change. more... |
| Lloyd's Chairman Says Insurers Must Tackle Climate Change
Jan. 12, 2007 - Insurers must address global climate change as they cope with the growing cost of extreme natural disasters, said Lord Peter Levene, chairman of Lloyd's, the London insurance market. more... |
| Presidential Hopefuls Announce Sponsorship of Climate Change Bill
Jan. 12, 2007 - Possible 2008 presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain, R-AZ and Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL have joined with independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in signing onto a bill that they say would reduce annual global-warming gases by two-thirds by mid-century.
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| NOAA Scientists To Double 3-D Global Climate Record
Jan. 8, 2007 - Scientists from the NOAA Earth System Research Lab and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, will build the first complete 20th Century database of global weather maps-a major next step to improving computer models of past and future climate. The team has been awarded two million supercomputing hours to complete the project through a 2007 Department of Energy INCITE Award (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment), the DOE announced today in Washington, D.C. more... |
| Swiss Re Announces Program to Encourage Employees to Reduce Personal Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Swiss Re, the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, has announced a new program to encourage its employees to encourage its employees to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in relation to mobility, heating and electrical energy. more... |
| Gov. Schwarzenegger Issues Directive to Establish World's First Low Carbon Standard for Transportation Fuels
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he will issue an Executive Order establishing a groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard for transportation fuels sold in California. By 2020, the standard would reduce the carbon intensity of California's passenger vehicle fuels by at least 10 percent. Governor's news release / Gov. Schwarzenegger's State of the State Address |
