 | Companies Lay Out Global Framework to Fight Climate Change
Feb. 20, 2007 -- As a significant step toward tackling climate change, an unprecedented group of companies and organizations from around the world have endorsed a bold post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly in regard to creating sustainable energy systems necessary for achieving economic growth. Signatories of The Path to Climate Sustainability: A Joint Statement by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change hail from a range of sectors and industries, including air transport, energy, technology, insurance, banking, and many others, from across the globe. more... |
| AAAS Releases New Statement on Climate Change
Feb. 18, 2007 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world, has issued a statement on global climate change. more... |
| State Farm Executive Named to South Carolina Climate Change Group
Feb. 16, 2007 - Reggie Gallant, the southern zone vice president for State Farm Insurance, is one of nine individuals who has been named by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to his Climate, Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee is charged with six broad objectives and has until March 2008 to report its recommendations back to the governor. more... |
 | International Lawmakers Reach Pact on Tackling Climate Change
Feb. 16, 2007 - Lawmakers from the G8 nations, plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, concluded a two-day meeting of the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment in Washington, D.C., this week by signing a non-binding declaration on climate change. The document calls for the successor to the Kyoto protocol to be in place by 2009, three years before the present treaty expires. more... |
| United Nations Panel Releases Latest Assessment on Climate Change
Feb. 2, 2007 - The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its long-awaited Fourth Assessment Report on changing climate conditions around the world. more... |
| RMS Makes Commitment to Studying the Impacts and Implications of Climate Change
Feb. 1, 2007 - Risk Management Solutions (RMS), the world's leading provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has announced the appointment of Dr. Celine Herweijer to the position of Principal Scientist, Future Climate. The role reflects a commitment by the company to explore the evaluation of future climate risk for today's economic, business, and political decisions. more... |
| Zurich Increases Focus on Microinsurance
Feb. 1, 2007 - Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), for a joint implementation of Zurich's new cross-regional microinsurance initiative. The initiative's primary aim is to expand insurance coverage to disadvantaged sectors of the population in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, thereby promoting basic risk management principles and helping to reduce poverty. more... |
