Study: Insurance firms deliver significant improvements to climate-related disclosures through 2020
The ClimateWise Principles have provided a framework for the insurance industry to disclose climate-related risk and opportunity since 2007
A new review of the climate disclosures of some of the world s biggest insurance firms has identified significant improvements in the incorporation of climate change considerations into investment and underwriting strategies
A review of insurance firms by a key industry climate body has revealed that many are stepping up efforts to support climate action, with an increasing number disclosing their preparedness for and response.
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the piercing blue eyes. very handsome. he is. i love him. but first, let s go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? good morning, everyone. it s a little slow weather day out there. not a lot of interesting stuff going on. let s step back and take a look at what s happened so far this year climatewise in the united states. really an unbelievable start to the year. we just got done with the third warmest april ever recorded. this is officially now the warmest start to any year we ve ever seen. one piece of good news, we ve only had one $1 billion weather disaster this year, that march tornado outbreak. last year, remember, we had 14 billion dollar weather disasters. as far as looking there, a little bit of good news. storm tracker this morning, it s a rainy morning, i-95 boston to philadelphia. new york city about to get wet and will stay that way pretty much all morning long. pretty gloomy in new england today. but again, just light rain. thunderstorms this aft
ideological disposition doesn t have any effect on whether the physics, on what the earth is doing climatewise. how much traction have you gotten with fellow republicans in trying to take that argument and talk to people about this?ç i feel like i m swimming upstream, but that said, we seem to hear from the far right. i think the what i call the common sense moderate middle has been largely silent, and i still think that most democrats, most republicans are somewhere in the middle of that bell curve and still respond to logic, still respond to reason. still respond to sound science. and i hope at some point we get back on track. my fear is that it may take a couple of climate calamities. what happened in europe, 2003, 30,000 people dead, is it going to take that kind of weather disaster for congress to finally get on track and start coming up with solutions? i m an optimist, but, chris, i m just responding to the data.