 | CalPERS Urges More Climate Risk Disclosure
October 31, 2007 – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System – the biggest pension fund in the United States – has told the U.S. Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment that it and other institutional investors need to see companies make more disclosures about their business risks and opportunities from climate change. more... |
| Travelers Joins Pew Business Environmental Leadership Council
October 30, 2007 – The Travelers Companies, Inc. has joined the Pew Center’s Business Environmental Leadership Council and its efforts to address global climate change. more... |
 | International Agreement on Carbon Market Partnership Announced
October 29, 2007 – A coalition of European countries, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, New Zealand and Norway have announced the formation of the International Carbon Action Partnership to fight global warming. more... |
| Professors Say Climate Too Complex For Accurate Predictions
October 26, 2007 – Two University of Washington scientists have published a paper in Science Magazine in which they argue that climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the planet. more... |
 | Report Finds More Insurance Climate Change Initiatives, Product Offerings
October 18, 2007 – A new report commissioned by Ceres, the investment coalition, has identified more than 400 climate-related activities in 26 countries, but adds that despite this impressive increase, most insurance companies are still not focused on the climate change issue and fewer still are offering climate-related products. more... |
| Al Gore, UN Panel Share 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
October 12, 2007 – Former U.S. Vice President AL Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." more... |
| Heartland Institute Deplores Nobel Foundation Peace Prize Choice
October 12, 2007 – The Heartland Institute, a Chicago, Illinois-based organization dedicated whose mission it is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems, has issued a news release deploring the Nobel Foundation’s decision to award its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. more... |
| Allstate Chief Sees Insurer Launching ‘Green’ Products
October 4, 2007 – Tom Wilson, president and CEO of Allstate Insurance Company, says his company plans to expand its “green” offerings by offering auto insurance products designed to appeal to owners of vehicles that operate on ethanol instead of gasoline fule, and customers who don’t put a lot of miles on their cars. more... |
| Poll Says Americans Would Pay Extra to Curb Global Warming
October 3, 2007 – A new quarterly survey conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Media and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has found that a majority of Americans support a variety of city and local measures to minimize the effects of global warming. more... |
