The CEO of the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the trade association for the general insurance industry, has called for Canadian governments and muncipalities to prepare infrastructure for climate change. CEO Mark Yakabuski said to the Economic Club in Toronto that “systems that are decaying underground and that were originally built for much more modest precipitation […]
Archive for November, 2007
Insurance Bureau of Canada calls for infrastructure adaptation
November 17th, 2007AR4 Synthesis Report agreed for release
November 17th, 2007Climate Change 2007, the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been completed and is due for release today. Copies of the Synthesis report will be available from www.ipcc.ch from later today AEST.
The Report contains the following
observed changes in climate and its effects (WG 1, 2)
Past climate change including palaeoclimate aspects
Effects of past climate change […]
Climate Risk Europe join the Aldersgate Group’s call for a common carbon reporting standard
November 13th, 2007Press Release London 13th November 2007. Climate Risk Europe Limited (CREL) today together with the Aldersgate Group called upon Prime Minister Gordon Brown to ensure the Climate Change Bill provides rigor to carbon reporting. See the letter below or on Pg 17 of todays FT.
Dear Prime Minister,
Climate change is one of the most critical issues […]
New Paper by Donovan Burton BEnv Plan Hons - Framing Climate:Implications for Local Government Policy
November 12th, 2007Co authors Donovan Burton and Dianne Dredge, School of Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
Abstract: The rapid uptake of political and community acceptance of climate change in Australia is placing significant pressures for local governments to examine their vulnerabilities to climate change as well as their need to undertake an expedited review of potential mitigation […]
