A new report titled ‘Managing Climate Risk-Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations’, was launched on the occasion of the Third Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly, held in Cape Town. The report states that “the impacts on investments, through increased costs or significant redirection, are estimated at 1 to 2 percent of the investment portfolio, […]
Archive for August, 2006
Managing Climate Risk: Integrating Adaptation into World Bank operations
August 30th, 2006Early Spring in Europe matches recent climate warming
August 26th, 2006Conclusive proof that Spring is arriving earlier across Europe than it did 30 years ago is published today in the journal Global Change Biology.
Scientists from 17 countries have collaborated in the world’s largest phenology study (the recording of changes in natural annual events such as the flowering of plants) and now have real evidence that […]
New CERES report: From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers Can Proactively and Profitably Manage Climate Change
August 23rd, 2006Dozens of new insurance activities, such as ‘green’ building credits and incentives for investing in renewable energy, are emerging to tackle the causes of climate change and rising weather-related losses in the U.S. and globally, according to a major new report issued today by the Ceres investor coalition.
But the report also states that more insurance […]
Guernsey’s Chief Minister sees the climate change threat to water levels as a driver for extending the life of Guernsey’s only quarry. Deputy Laurie Morgan, the Channel Isles Chief Minister is reported to have stated that if an additional area at Les Vardes is quarried, the enlarged void space could be reserved for water storage […]
US reports first “climate refugees”
August 21st, 2006A US environmental group reports that of the 370,000 residents who have yet to return to coastal Louisiana post Katrina at least 250,000 of them have established homes elsewhere and will not return. Lester Brown, the director of the Earth Policy Institute stated “They no longer want to face the personal trauma and financial risks […]
