takefive with Cy Greenya of Donegal Insurance Group
Cy Greenya, Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer of the Donegal Insurance Group in Marietta, Pennsylvania, explains the reasons behind his company’s decision to offer homeowner’s discounts for solar energy or geothermal heat pumps.
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Online Catastrophe Price Index Launched
April 27, 2009 – Willis Re and Thomson Reuters have announced the launch of the Willis Re Catastrophe Price Index, which measures pricing levels in the U.S. property catastrophe reinsurance market. more...
California Adopts Low Carbon Fuel Standard
April 23, 2009 – The California Air Resources Board has adopted a regulation that will implement Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Low Carbon Fuel Standard calling for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from California's transportation fuels by ten percent by 2020. more...
Hurricane Forecasters Predict “Average” Season
April 7, 2009 – Researchers at Colorado State University are predicting an “average” hurricane season this year with 12 named storms and six hurricanes. more...
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Munich Re Launches Low-Carbon Publication
June 16, 2009 – Munich Re has launched a new publication, “Munich Renewables – Our Contribution to a low-carbon energy supply” which offers the market risk-transfer solutions for all forms of renewable energy use. more...
Munich Re Launches Micro-insurance Project in Indonesia
May 13, 2008 – Munich Re, in collaboration with two partners, has launched a pilot product offering low income households in the Indonesian capital Jakarta the opportunity to insure against the direct economic losses and social risks caused by severe flooding. more...
UNEP-FI Conducting Survey on Sustainability Underwriting
March 9, 2009 – The United Nations Environmental Program – Financial Initiatives is conducting a global survey of the insurance and reinsurance industries to develop a set of principles for sustainable insurance underwriting. Individuals can take the survey between March 9 and May 4. more...
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Report Cites Climate Change Impacts on United States
June 16, 2009 – A new report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program finds that Americans are already being affected by climate change through extreme weather, drought and wildfire trends and details how the nation’s transportation, agriculture, health, water and energy sections will be affected in the future. more...
UN Agency Releases Report on Disaster Risks
May 18, 2009 – The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has issued its first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction. The ISDR, launched in 2000, provides a framework to coordinate actions to address disaster risks at the local, national, regional and international levels. The Report urges all countries to make major efforts to reduce their disaster risk by 2015. more...
Climate Change Will Alter Business, Trade: Lloyd’s
April 28, 2009 – A new report released by Lloyds and the International Institute for Strategic Studies says climate change will increase water scarcity, alter food production and dramatically change energy supplies and migration patterns. more...
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