Insurance in a Climate of Change:
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Television and Radio
- All Things Considered - Insurers Try to Calculate Risks of Climate Change (January 21, 2008) [archive transcript]
- Best's Review - Why the Insurance Industry Must Lead the Effort to Overcome Global Issues Involving the Changing Environment [podcast] (March 5, 2008)
- CNN American Morning - Melting Point (February 1, 2007)
- BBC Television (August 29, 2006)
- KPFA - Climate Change and the Insurance Industry (August 25, 2006) [listen]
- Marketplace (National Public Radio) - Insurers Adapt to Global Warming (August 23, 2006) [archive listen | .pdf]
- Marketplace (National Public Radio) - Global Warming Insurance (August 22, 2006) [archive listen]
- NPR - Talk of the Nation - Science Friday - audio - (August 12, 2005)
- CBS Radio (The Osgood Files) - Insurance Companies are Worried about Global Warming (July 14, 2005)
- Earthwatch Radio -"Future Financial Climate" (June 14, 2005) [archive .pdf]; "Insurance in a Warmer World" (June 2, 2005) [archive .pdf]; "Headlines and Bottom Lines" (May 2, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- CBS Radio (The Osgood Files) - Insurance Insecurities (2/27/03, 5/20/04, 7/14/05) [archive .pdf]
- CBC - Interview - Summer Days
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- Canadian Underwriter - Eco Insurance - April 2008 [archive .pdf]
- Business Week - Insurance Goes Green - March 6, 2008 [archive .pdf]
- Bests Review - Why Going Green Matters - March 2008 [archive .pdf]
- Business Insurance - Climate Change Broadens Scope of Risk (February 11, 2008) [archive .pdf]
- Insurance News Net - Insurers Try to Calculate Risks of Climate Change (January 21, 2008) [archive .pdf]
- Environmental Leader. 2008. "Insurers Launch Green Products" (January 16, 2008) [.pdf]
- USA Today, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle - Insurers Paying to Rebuild Greener Homes (January 8, 2008) [.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]; WSJ 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)
- San Jose Mercury News - Underwater by 2100?: Risk of the Rising Sea (January 26, 2007)
- Best's Review - Insurers Reward Eco-Friendly Clients (December 2006)
- GreenBiz.com - Top Green Business Stories of 2006 (December 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Chicago Sun Times - Area's Economy is Especially Vulnerable to Global Warming (December 4, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Washington Post - A Dream Blown Away (December 2, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Dropping Knowledge (from Allianz) - Are Insurers Getting Serious about Climate Change? (December 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Insurance Journal - Under Construction: The Green Property Insurance Market [archive .pdf]
- Investment Advisor Magazine - The Times Are A-Changing: Climate Change is a Tsunami Sweeping Through the Insurance Industry (October 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Warming Gets Insurers' Attention (October 16, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Christian Science Monitor - New Combatant Against Global Warming: Insurance Industry (October 13, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Washington Post - Insurance Coverage Cut After Disasters (October 7, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Time - Weather or Not? Insurance Companies May Have to Save the Climate to Save Their Bottom Line (October 1, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Belleville News Democrat - Insurance Companies Restrict Coverage in More Coastal Areas (October 1, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Wall Street Journal - Insurers See Global Warming as Threat (September 27, 2006), p. b2b [archive .pdf]
- Philadelphia Inquirer - Natural Disasters Send Insurance Rates Soaring (September 24, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- The Providence Journal - Insurers Confront Global Warming (September 19, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- SocialFunds.com - How Insurers are (and are not) Tackling Climate Risks in Underwriting, Investing, and Policies (August 29, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- MSNBC / San Francisco Business Times - Insurers Feeling the Heat of Climate-Change Losses (August 25, 2006) [archive .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) [archive .pdf]
- The Why Files - Katrina+1: Are we Rebuilding in Harm's Way? (August 24, 2006)
- Insurance Network News - Some, Not All, Insurance Companies Tackling Climate Change (August 24, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- US News and World Report - Support for Federal Emissions Legislation Grows Among Insurers (August 23, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- CNNMoney.com and Fortune - Insurance Companies Take on Global Warming (August 23, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Hartford Courant - Many Insurers Thinking Green: They're Offering New Products, Services Aimed At Reducing Global Warming (August 23, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Business Insurance - Insurers Respond to Climate Change: Study (August 23, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Pensions & Investments - Firms Help Alleviate Financial Risks from Environmental Woes, Study Says (August 22, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Hartford Courant - The Insurance Industry is Feeling the Heat of Global Warming (July 6, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Chicago Tribune - Storms Proving Costly for Insurance Industry (July 3, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Slate - Bigger Smash (June 20, 2006) [archive .pdf] [Reply/correction] (July 1, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Connect Savannah - Apocalypse Now (June 22, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- USA Today - Corporate America Warms to Fight against Global Warming.” (June 5, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- World Peace Herald - Global Warming Debates Heat Up Again (May 24, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Risk Management - Rising Temperatures, Seas and Claims: The Potential Impact of Climate Change [archive .pdf]
- CBS News - Insurance Industry Dealing with Surge in Disasters (March 15, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Boston Globe - Insurance Industry Feels the Heat of Global Warming (March 15, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Argus Air Daily - Insurance Regulators to Grapple Climate (March 13, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Fortune - Cloudy with A Chance of Chaos (January 19, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Consumer Reports - Higher Insurance Premiums: Blame Climate Change? (February 2006) p. 6. [archive .pdf]
- CNN Money - Cloudy witth a Chance of Chaos (by Eugene Linden) (January 15, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Huffington Post - Insurance and Climate Change: A Matter of Policy (December 11, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Business Week - The Race Against Climate Change (December 3, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- National Geographic News - Warming Will Lead to Major Disease Outbreaks, Experts Warn (December 2, 2005) [archive .pdf1 and .pdf2]
- Wired - Investors bet on Global Warming (November 22, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Live Science - Allergies Getting Worse Due to Global Warming (November 22, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Inc. Magazine - Disaster Cowboys (November 15, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Science Central - Insurance - Global Warming (November 10, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Times of India - Turning up The Heat (November 10, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Malaysia Kini - Ripple Effects of Global Warming (November 8, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- The Economist - Feverish Analysis - Climate Change (November 5, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- New Kerala - Scientists Predict Climate Change Effects (November 2, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Boston Globe - Climate Change May Help Spread Diseases (November 2, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Live Science - Insurance Company Warns of Global Warming's Costs (November 1, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- The Hartford Courant - Insurers Tackle Climate (October 28, 2005)
- Washington Post - Warming to Cause Harsher Weather, Study Says p. A2 (October 18, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Baltimore Sun - Stormy Weather (October 16, 2005)
- The Dallas Morning News - Insurers, Other Businesses Planning ahead for Violent Climate
Change (September 28, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- The Standard - Changing Climate Poses Threat to Industry, vol 257, No. 7, p. 16 (September 16, 2005)
- New Yorker - Storm Warning (Talk of the Town) (September 12, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Boston Globe - Insurers at Risk (Editorial) (September 11, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Sacramento Bee - Global Warming Called Insurance Peril (September 9, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Financial Times - Severe Weather Increasing Losses, Report Says (September 8, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- The Royal Gazzette - Insurers Brace for More 'Katrinas' (September 8, 2005) ; [archive .pdf]Higher Premiums to Benefit Insurers after Katrina (September 9, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Insurance Journal - New Report Warns of Rising Threat to Industry from Climate Change (September 8, 2005) [archive .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) [archive .pdf]
- Forbes - Cursing Katrina (August 30, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Oakland Tribune - U.S. Insurers Don't Heat Up to Global Warming Threat (August 18, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Inside Energy - Scientist urges insurance ‘bond’ on climate (August 15th, 2005)
- The Insurance Journal - Insurance Industry Share of Weather-Related Losses Rising, with 60% Tied to Small Events - (August 11, 2005) [archive .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) [archive .pdf]
- National Wildlife - Will Global Warming Cause More Wildfires? (Aug/Sept 2004) [archive .pdf]
- MSNBC - West Withers, Wonders about Warming (May 7, 2004) [archive .pdf]
- CBS News - Western States: Death by Climate - (May 3, 2004) [archive .pdf]
- Missoulian - Changes in Climate Foretell a Hazy Future for Wildfires (November 23, 2003) [archive .pdf]
- USA Today - Global Warming Could Worsen California Wildfires (November 12, 2003) [archive .pdf]
- Our Ocean World - Costs of Climate Change - (May 1, 2003) [archive .pdf]
- Washington Post - Claims on the Global Warming Debate, p. A23 (December 10, 1997) [archive .pdf]
News Releases & Newswires
- 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) [archive .pdf]
- Dow Jones Newswire - Insurance Cos Push Green Revolution to Stay in the Black (September 20, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Reuters - Alternet - Insurers Told to Do More to Tackle Climate Change (September 5, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- BestWire - Regulators Seek to Chart Impact of Climate Change on Insurers (August 25, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Yahoo! News - Dozens of New Insurance Products Emerging to Tackle Climate Change and Rising Weather Losses (August 22, 2006) [archive .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) [archive .pdf]
- BestWire - Climate Researcher Sees No End in Sight for Warmer Seas, Stronger Hurricanes (May 23, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Inter-Press News Service - States Calculate Global Warming Pricetag (March 14, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- BestWire - Insurance Regulators Tackle Climate Change through New Taskforce (March 14, 2006) [archive .pdf]
- Associated Press - Insurers Urged to Assess Climate Change Risks (December 2, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- BestWire - Swiss Re, Partners Probe the Depths of Climate Change Threats (November 21, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Inter Press Service News Agency - Ripples of Climate Change Spread Outward (November 3, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- UPI - Scientists Predict Climate Change Effects (November 1, 2005) [archive .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) [archive .pdf]
- Corporate Responsibility Newswire - Insurers Behind the Curve in Addressing and Disclosing Risks of Climate Change, (September 29, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Cox News Service - Business Concerns Could Lead to a Smaller New Orleans (September 25, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Environmental News Service - Insurance Companies Staggering Under Global Warming Damages (September 15, 2005) [archive .pdf]
- Ceres - New Ceres Report Warns of Rising Threat to U.S. Insurers and their Customers from Climate Changes (September 8, 2005) [archive .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) [archive .pdf]
- LBNL - Berkeley Lab Scientist Sees Risk to Insurance Industry From Climate Change (August 12, 2005) [archive .pdf]
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