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  • USA Today - Report: Most Insurers Not Ready for Climate Change - March 13, 2013
  • Reactions - A Changing Political Climate - March 5, 2013 [PDF]
  • Ars Technica - Climate Change is Big Business (for the Insurance Industry) - December 24, 2012
  • Reactions - Insurers Invest in Climate Change Mitigation - December 20, 2012
  • Canadian Underwriter - Climate Change on Insurance Industry's Radar: Berkeley Lab Research - December 17, 2012
  • Insurance News Report - Insurance Industry Becoming a Fierce Opponent of Climate Change - December 17, 2012
  • Science 2.0 - Insurance Companies will Make Money on Climate Change Either Way - December 17, 2012
  • Truthdig - Insurance Industry is Taking Climate Change Seriously - December 15, 2012
  • Los Angeles Times - Climate Change Taken Seriously by Insurance Industry, Study Says - December 14, 2012
  • Property Casualty 360 - Insurers Need to Step p in Role as Societyl Partner to Mitigate Climate Change Risk - December 14, 2012
  • Express - Klimaatverandering Steeds Meer Centraal Bijverzekeraars (Belgium) - December 14, 2012
  • InsuranceNewsNet.com - Berkeley Lab Research Finds the Insurance Industry Paying Increasing Attention to Climate Change - December 14
  • Science Daily - Insurance Industry Paying Increasing Attention to Climate Change - December 13, 2012.
  • Science Business - Insurance Industry Adjusting to Climate Change - December 13.
  • Good - Can the Insurance Industry Put an End to Congress' Climate Change Myopia? - December 13, 2012.
  • Phys.org - Study Finds Insurance Industry Paying Increasing Attention to Climate Change - December 13, 2012.
  • Inside Energy EXTRA - Climate a Growing Issue for Insurance (p1) - December 13.
  • Connecticut Mirror - Connecticut Insurers Take on Risky Challenges of Climate Change - March 27, 2012 [PDF]
  • National Geographic - Choosing Climate Friendly Insurance - January 29, 2010 [PDF]
  • Huffington Post - Global Warming's Impacts Have Sped Up, Worsened Since Kyoto, November 22, 2009 [PDF]
  • Best's Review - Smoke Signals: The Carbon Credit Market Churns, Waiting for the Winds of Change, July 2009.
  • ClimateWire - Administration Finds Risks, Role for Insurers in Climate Change - June 18, 2009 [PDF]
  • Wall Street Journal - Insurers Offer Rewards for Going Green - April 21, 2009 [PDF]
  • New York Times - Insurers Move Slowly on Climate Risks - April 3, 2009 [PDF]
  • Agent & Broker - Looking beyond the Green lLabel - March 2009 [PDF].
  • Reactions - The Scientist's View: Insurers Making up for Lost Time on Climate Change - September 1, 2008 [PDF]
  • Environment magazine - Bytes of Note: Climate Policy's Quiet Giants - July/August 2008 [PDF]
  • Canadian Underwriter - Eco Insurance - April 2008 [PDF]
  • Business Week - Insurance Goes Green - March 6, 2008 [PDF]
  • Best's Review - Why the Insurance Industry Must Lead the Effort to Overcome Global Issues Involving the Changing Environment - March 5, 2008
  • Bests Review - Why Going Green Matters - March 2008 [PDF]
  • Business Insurance - Climate Change Broadens Scope of Risk - February 11, 2008 [PDF]
  • Insurance News Net - Insurers Try to Calculate Risks of Climate Change - January 21, 2008 [PDF]
  • Environmental Leader - Insurers Launch Green Products - January 16, 2008 [PDF]
  • MSNBC, USA Today, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle - Insurers Paying to Rebuild Greener Homes - January 8, 2008 [PDF]
  • Risk Management - "Insurers Go Green" - December 2007 [PDF]
  • WorldChanging - Insurers Can Have A Constructive Role in Fighting Global Warming - November 5, 2007 [PDF]
  • SocialFunds - Risking the Weather: The Insurance Sector Faces Climate Change - October 24, 2007 [PDF]
  • Environmental Leader - Insurers Offer Hundreds Of New Products In Response To Climate Change - October 19, 2007 [PDF]
  • Insurance Journal - Report: Insurance Initiatives Tackling Climate Change Reach New High - October 18, 2007 [PDF]
  • BestWire - Florida AG Says Insurers 'Overreacting' to Climate-Change Threat - October 17, 2007 [PDF]
  • The Age - Insurers Embrace the Winds of Change - August 11, 2007 [PDF]
  • Scientific American.com - Insurers Claim Global Warming Makes Some Regions Too Hot to Handle - August 2, 2007 [PDF]
  • Allianz Knowledge - Who Will Pay for Global Warming? - June 20, 2007
  • Wall Street Journal - How Insurers Can Help Reduce Warming Risks - June 4, 2007 [PDF]
  • Wall Street Journal On-Line - What Insurers Should Do About Climate Change - June 3, 2007
  • InfoWorld - CO2 Spewer? See You in Court! - May 31, 2007 [PDF]
  • Business Insurance - Insurer Response 'Key' to Climate Solutions: Study - May 30, 2007 [PDF]
  • Insurance Journal - Study Highlights Industry's Potential Climate Change Liabilities - May 29, 2007 [PDF]
  • Marketwatch - Insurers Waking Up to Risks of Climate Change - May 16, 2007 [PDF]
  • Insurance Journal - Catching Up on Climate Change - May 7, 2007 [PDF]
  • National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies - Take-Five Interview - February 2, 2007 ClimateandInsurance.org [PDF]
  • Newsweek - Insurance Climate Change - January 29, 2007
  • Panorama Assicurativo - Cambiamento climatico, Catastrofi naturali (Changing Climate; Natural Catastrophies) - February 2007 (in Italian)
  • San Jose Mercury News - Underwater by 2100? Risk of the Rising Sea - January 26, 2007 [PDF]
  • Best's Review - Insurers Reward Eco-Friendly Clients - December 2006
  • GreenBiz.com - Top Green Business Stories of 2006 - December 2006 [PDF]
  • Chicago Sun Times - Area's Economy is Especially Vulnerable to Global Warming - December 4, 2006
  • Washington Post - A Dream Blown Away - December 2, 2006 [PDF]
  • Dropping Knowledge (from Allianz) - Are Insurers Getting Serious about Climate Change? - December 2006 [PDF]
  • Insurance Journal - Under Construction: The Green Property Insurance Market - November 7, 2006 [PDF]
  • Investment Advisor Magazine - The Times Are A-Changing: Climate Change is a Tsunami Sweeping Through the Insurance Industry - October 2006 [PDF]
  • Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Warming Gets Insurers' Attention - October 16, 2006 [PDF]
  • Christian Science Monitor - New Combatant Against Global Warming: Insurance Industry - October 13, 2006 [PDF]
  • Washington Post - Insurance Coverage Cut After Disasters - October 7, 2006 [PDF]
  • Time - Weather or Not? Insurance Companies May Have to Save the Climate to Save Their Bottom Line - October 1, 2006 [PDF]
  • Belleville News Democrat - Insurance Companies Restrict Coverage in More Coastal Areas - October 1, 2006 [PDF]
  • Wall Street Journal - Insurers See Global Warming as Threat - September 27, 2006, p. b2b
  • Philadelphia Inquirer - Natural Disasters Send Insurance Rates Soaring - September 24, 2006 [PDF]
  • The Providence Journal - Insurers Confront Global Warming - September 19, 2006 [PDF]
  • SocialFunds.com - How Insurers are (and are not) Tackling Climate Risks in Underwriting, Investing, and Policies - August 29, 2006 [PDF]
  • Business Insurance - "Insurance Providers Tackle Climate Change and Weather Events - August 28, 2006
  • MSNBC / San Francisco Business Times - Insurers Feeling the Heat of Climate-Change Losses - August 25, 2006 [PDF]
  • The Energy Daily - Report: Record Losses Prompt Insurers to Address Global Warming Risks - August 24, 2006, p. 1.
  • Environmental Finance - More insurance solutions needed on climate - Ceres - August 25, 2006 [PDF]
  • The Why Files - Katrina+1: Are we Rebuilding in Harm's Way? - August 24, 2006
  • Insurance Networking News - Some, Not All, Insurance Companies Tackling Climate Change - August 24, 2006 [PDF]
  • US News and World Report - Support for Federal Emissions Legislation Grows Among Insurers - August 23, 2006 [PDF]
  • CNNMoney.com and Fortune - Insurance Companies Take on Global Warming - August 23, 2006 [PDF]
  • Hartford Courant - Many Insurers Thinking Green: They're Offering New Products, Services Aimed At Reducing Global Warming - August 23, 2006 [PDF]
  • Business Insurance - Insurers Respond to Climate Change: Study - August 23, 2006 [PDF]
  • Pensions & Investments - Firms Help Alleviate Financial Risks from Environmental Woes, Study Says - August 22, 2006 [PDF]
  • Hartford Courant - The Insurance Industry is Feeling the Heat of Global Warming - July 6, 2006 [PDF]
  • Chicago Tribune - Storms Proving Costly for Insurance Industry - July 3, 2006 [PDF]
  • Slate - Bigger Smash - June 20, 2006 [PDF]
    • Reply/Correction - July 1, 2006 [PDF]
  • Connect Savannah - Apocalypse Now - June 22, 2006 [PDF]
  • USA Today - Corporate America Warms to Fight against Global Warming - June 5, 2006 [PDF]
  • World Peace Herald - Global Warming Debates Heat Up Again - May 24, 2006 [PDF]
  • Risk Management - Rising Temperatures, Seas and Claims: The Potential Impact of Climate Change [PDF]
  • CBS News - Insurance Industry Dealing with Surge in Disasters - March 15, 2006 [PDF]
  • Boston Globe - Insurance Industry Feels the Heat of Global Warming - March 15, 2006 [PDF]
  • Argus Air Daily - Insurance Regulators to Grapple Climate - March 13, 2006 [PDF]
  • Ceres - National Association of Insurance Commissioners Establishes Task Force on Climate Change - March 13, 2006 [PDF]
  • Fortune - Cloudy with A Chance of Chaos - January 19, 2006 [PDF]
  • Consumer Reports - Higher Insurance Premiums: Blame Climate Change? - February 2006 p. 6. [PDF]
  • CNN Money - Cloudy with a Chance of Chaos (by Eugene Linden) - January 17, 2006 [PDF]
  • Huffington Post - Insurance and Climate Change: A Matter of Policy - December 11, 2005 [PDF]
  • Business Week - The Race Against Climate Change - December 12, 2005 [PDF]
  • National Geographic News - Warming Will Lead to Major Disease Outbreaks, Experts Warn - December 2, 2005 [PDF]
  • Wired - Investors bet on Global Warming - November 22, 2005 [PDF]
  • Live Science - Allergies Getting Worse Due to Global Warming - November 22, 2005 [PDF]
  • Inc. Magazine - Disaster Cowboys - November 15, 2005 [PDF]
  • Science Central - Insurance - Global Warming - November 10, 2005 [PDF]
  • Times of India - Turning up The Heat - November 10, 2005 [PDF]
  • Malaysia Kini - Ripple Effects of Global Warming - November 8, 2005 [PDF]
  • The Economist - Feverish Analysis - Climate Change - November 5, 2005 [PDF]
  • New Kerala - Scientists Predict Climate Change Effects - November 2, 2005 [PDF]
  • Boston Globe - Climate Change May Help Spread Diseases - November 2, 2005 [PDF]
  • Live Science - Insurance Company Warns of Global Warming's Costs - November 1, 2005 [PDF]
  • The Hartford Courant - Insurers Tackle Climate - October 28, 2005
  • Washington Post - Warming to Cause Harsher Weather, Study Says p. A2 - October 18, 2005 [PDF]
  • Baltimore Sun - Stormy Weather - October 16, 2005
  • The Dallas Morning News - Insurers, Other Businesses Planning Ahead for Violent Climate Change - September 28, 2005 [PDF]
  • The Standard - Changing Climate Poses Threat to Industry, vol 257, No. 7, p. 16 - September 16, 2005
  • The New Yorker (Talk of the Town) - Storm Warnings - September 19, 2005 [PDF]
  • Boston Globe - Insurers at Risk (Editorial) - September 11, 2005 [PDF]
  • Sacramento Bee - Global Warming Called Insurance Peril - September 9, 2005 [PDF]
  • Financial Times - Severe Weather Increasing Losses, Report Says - September 8, 2005 [PDF]
  • The Royal Gazzette - Insurers Brace for More 'Katrinas' - September 8, 2005 ; [PDF]
  • The Royal Gazzette - Higher Premiums to Benefit Insurers after Katrina - September 9, 2005 [PDF]
  • Insurance Journal - New Report Warns of Rising Threat to Industry from Climate Change - September 8, 2005 [PDF]
  • Omaha World-Herald - Insurers Eye Climate Changes: Nebraska's Insurance Director Says Companies May Transfer More Risk to Consumers and Government Because of Extreme Weather Brought on by Climate Shifts, p.1D - September 8, 2005
  • Bloomberg - Insurance Regulators Mull Climate Change, Katrina - September 7, 2005 [PDF]
  • Forbes - Cursing Katrina - August 30, 2005 [PDF]
  • Oakland Tribune - U.S. Insurers Don't Heat Up to Global Warming Threat - August 18, 2005 [PDF]
  • Inside Energy - Scientist urges insurance 'bond' on climate - August 15, 2005
  • The Insurance Journal - Insurance Industry Share of Weather-Related Losses Rising, with 60% Tied to Small Events - August 11, 2005 [PDF]
  • Los Angeles Times (Business Section) - "Disaster Losses Lead Insurers to Global Warming Debate", p.C1 - July 3, 2005
  • Mother Jones Interview - The Prophets of Doom - April 18, 2005 [PDF]
  • National Wildlife - Will Global Warming Cause More Wildfires? - Aug/Sept 2004 [PDF]
  • MSNBC - West Withers, Wonders about Warming - May 7, 2004 [PDF]
  • CBS News - Western States: Death by Climate - May 3, 2004 [PDF]
  • Missoulian - Changes in Climate Foretell a Hazy Future for Wildfires - November 23, 2003 [PDF]
  • USA Today - Global Warming Could Worsen California Wildfires - November 12, 2003 [PDF]
  • Our Ocean World - Costs of Climate Change - May 1, 2003 [PDF]
  • Washington Post - Claims on the Global Warming Debate, p. A23 - December 10, 1997 [PDF]

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News Releases & Newswires

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News Release - Berkeley Lab Researcher finds Insurance Industry Paying Increasing Attention to Climate Change. Rerun by Eureka Alert.
  • Associated Press - Insurers Paying to Rebuild Greener Homes - January 8, 2008 [PDF]
  • Greenwire - Insurers No Longer Cool About Warming Threats - October 2007 [PDF]
  • MarketWire - Green Building Support From the Insurance Industry Aims to Reduce Environmental Risks From Global Warming - October 25, 2006 [PDF]
  • Dow Jones Newswire - Insurance Cos Push Green Revolution to Stay in the Black - September 20, 2006 [PDF]
  • Reuters - Alternet - Insurers Told to Do More to Tackle Climate Change - September 5, 2006 [PDF]
  • BestWire - Regulators Seek to Chart Impact of Climate Change on Insurers - August 25, 2006 [PDF]
  • Yahoo! News - Dozens of New Insurance Products Emerging to Tackle Climate Change and Rising Weather Losses - August 22, 2006 [PDF]
  • Ceres News Release - Dozens of New Insurance Products Emerging to Tackle Climate Change and Rising Weather Losses - August 22, 2006
  • Associated Press - Storms Proving Costly for Insurance Industry - July 3, 2006 [PDF]
  • BestWire - Climate Researcher Sees No End in Sight for Warmer Seas, Stronger Hurricanes - May 23, 2006 [PDF]
  • Inter-Press News Service - States Calculate Global Warming Pricetag - March 14, 2006 [PDF]
  • BestWire - Insurance Regulators Tackle Climate Change through New Taskforce - March 14, 2006 [PDF]
  • Associated Press - Insurers Urged to Assess Climate Change Risks - December 2, 2005 [PDF]
  • BestWire - Swiss Re, Partners Probe the Depths of Climate Change Threats - November 21, 2005 [PDF]
  • Inter Press Service News Agency - Ripples of Climate Change Spread Outward - November 3, 2005 [PDF]
  • UPI - Scientists Predict Climate Change Effects - November 1, 2005 [PDF]
  • Reuters - Climate Change Linked to Rise in Malaria, Asthma - November 1, 2005
  • Harvard Medical School - Study Shows Escalating Climate Change Impacts on Human Health, the Environment, and the Economy - November 1, 2005 [PDF]
  • Corporate Responsibility Newswire - Insurers Behind the Curve in Addressing and Disclosing Risks of Climate Change - September 29, 2005 [PDF]
  • Cox News Service - Business Concerns Could Lead to a Smaller New Orleans - September 25, 2005 [PDF]
  • Environmental News Service - Insurance Companies Staggering Under Global Warming Damages - September 15, 2005 [PDF]
  • Ceres - New Ceres Report Warns of Rising Threat to U.S. Insurers and their Customers from Climate Changes - September 8, 2005 [PDF]
  • Risk and Insurance Management Society Newswire - Berkeley Lab Scientists Sees Risk to Insurance Industry from Climate Change - August 15, 2005
  • Ascribe ( The Public Interest Newswire) - Berkeley Lab Scientist Sees Risk to Insurance Industry From Climate Change - August 11, 2005 [PDF]
  • LBNL - Berkeley Lab Scientist Sees Risk to Insurance Industry From Climate Change - August 11, 2005 [PDF]

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