news archives - november 2007
 | Global Insurers Among Signatories to The Bali Communiqué
November 30, 2007 – A total of 150 global businesses – including several insurance companies – have signed a communiqué calling for a comprehensive, legally binding United Nations framework to tackle climate change. more... |
 | NAIC Releases Its Climate Change White Paper
November 29, 2007 – The NAIC Climate Change and Global Warming (EX) Task Force has released its 16-page white paper on “Potential Insurance-Related Impacts of Climate Change on Insurance Regulators.” Among other things, the paper recommends that the NAIC create a working group under the Financial Condition (E) Committee to develop interrogatories and other tools to evaluate the risks that climate change will have across multiple lines of insurance. more... |
| UN Report Says Climate Change Trapping World’s Poorest
November 27, 2007 – Without immediate action, climate change could have a disastrous impact for the world’s poorest people and reverse any gains made in poverty reduction, nutrition, health and education, according to the annual United Nations Human Development Report. more... |
 | British Businesses Committed to Climate Change, According to Report
November 26, 2007 – British businesses, including several major insurers, are committed to doing whatever it takes to tackle climate change, according to a report issued by the Confederation of British Industry. more... |
| British Commonwealth Nations Issue Statement on Climate Change
November 26, 2007 – Representatives from 53 British Commonwealth nations, meeting in Uganda, have signed a climate change statement that calls for “a long term aspirational global goal for emissions reduction to which countries would contribute.” more... |
| New Australian PM Says Climate Change Top Priority
November 26, 2007 – Newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he will make climate change a priority in his new Labor Party administration, including the signing of the Kyoto Protocol. more... |
| IPCC Releases Synthesis Report on Climate Change
November 17, 2007 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its Synthesis Report which forms the final part of “Climate Change 2007,” the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. more... |
| IBC asks governments to upgrade city infrastructures, adapt to climate change
November 14, 2007 – The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is calling on Canadian municipal, provincial and federal governments to improve urban infrastructure so as to mitigate property damage caused by storms in an age of climate change. more... |
