Chris Plecash writes in the Hill Times of Canada about the rising insurance claims due to extreme weather events associated with climate change. This is going to happen in more than Canada and hopefully we will all be prepared. Extreme weather events beginning to take a toll on Canadian infrastructure, economy Extreme weather events … Continue reading Maybe Canada will wake up to importance of climate change
Category: climate change
Being more honest about climate change
Eric Reguly provides an excellent article in Canada’s Globe and Mail about some of the myths about climate change that many have used in Canada to justify non action. This comes the week that the Financial Times reports that Canada is set to win a big concession in forthcoming EU environment legislation that would open … Continue reading Being more honest about climate change
How the economics world needs to respond to climate change
Erin Nash and Yuan Yang from Rethinking Economics write on the Responding to Climate Change website about exactly that, rethinking economics. They state that economics education is creating a generation who don’t understand climate change. It will be interesting to get the views of EiD readers. Climate change means we must rewrite economics textbooks … Continue reading How the economics world needs to respond to climate change
Insuring our future
While EiD has had other posts discussing insurance against climate change, this post by world renown economist from Yale University, Robert J. Shiller, in the New York Times provides an excellent analysis why global warming needs to be addressed by the private institutions of risk management, such as insurance and securitization. Buying Insurance Against … Continue reading Insuring our future
Canada re-thinking its approach to climate change
Canada has been in the global doghouse concerning climate change ever since it decided to walk out of the Kyoto Protocol. Yes, it did make some half-hearted commitment at the climate conference in Copenhagen several years ago. The priority has been on resource development – mainly tar sands – but now Josh Wingrove writes in … Continue reading Canada re-thinking its approach to climate change
A disconnect between climate change and economic havoc
Using the US report on climate change as a starting point, Don Pittis provides three good reasons on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website about why businesses are seemingly ignoring the problem. Climate change: 3 reasons businesses aren't seeking solutions Climate change causing economic havoc, according to new U.S. Congressional report It seems a strange disconnect. … Continue reading A disconnect between climate change and economic havoc
US climate change opinion
There were many press reports on the National Climate Assessment that showed the dramatic impact of climate change. Christopher Caldwell, who writes a weekly column in the weekend Financial Times, wrote an excellent article on the reaction in the US. With the negotiations expected to conclude in 2015 to set a global commitment to addressing … Continue reading US climate change opinion
Insuring our sustainable future
Attending several of the global climate conferences, this was a topic that regularly came up in side events. It is now good to see in the article by Julia Kollewe in the Guardian that the insurance industry is starting to take climate change more seriously. Obviously, it is in their interest and it is certainly … Continue reading Insuring our sustainable future
Vegetarians and climate change
Now it is important to provide the other side of the food debate. My vegetarian friends are regularly extolling the benefits of their diets. This is a good article by L. V. Anderson in Canada’s National Post about the wider issues and what possibly could be the most reasonable way forward. Could vegetarianism save … Continue reading Vegetarians and climate change
Economic modelling is so needed and yet . . .
Jenny Banks from WWF UK writes an excellent article in the Guardian about economic models and how they fail to accurately value our health or our environment and how that affects our climate change policies. It is certainly worth reading and thinking about. Now, how to solve it . . . Why Treasury model … Continue reading Economic modelling is so needed and yet . . .
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