News from Participants

This page contains news items and reports published by or about Roundtable participants. Please forward relevant items to the GROCC Secretariat for posting.

Munich Re goes climate neutral. June 26, 2007.

Michael Northrop (Rockefeller Brothers Foundation) and David Sassoon. "Cap and trade and more."
Environmental Finance, June 2007.

Thomas Scharff of Stora Enso North America Corp. Named to State of Wisconsin Global Warming Task Force. April 12, 2007.

Ricoh Expresses Support for Joint Statement by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change.
February 21, 2007.

Suntech Joins Global Roundtable on Climate Change
February 21, 2007.

International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Supports Launch of the Global Framework to Fight Climate Change. February 20, 2007. 

Energetech wave energy named top ten technology of 2007 by International Academy of Science. February 20, 2007.

Interface Joins Global Roundtable on Climate Change. February 20, 2007.

Sea Breeze Power Company Joins 85 Companies in Endorsement of Global Roundtable on Climate Change
February 20, 2007.

New Year's Address by Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, discusses GROCC and other climate and energy intiaitives. January 1, 2007.

HM Treasury, the United Kingdom. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change. October 2006.

Ceres. "Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure." October 2006.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies that Address Climate Change. October, 2006.

Evan Mills and Eugene Lecomte. From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurance Companies Can Proactively and Profitable Manage Climate Change. Ceres, August 22, 2006.

Citigroup Invesment Research and World Resources Institute "Investing in Solutions to Climate Change". Citigroup Research, June 12, 2006.

International Council on Mining and Metals. Climate Change Position Statement. May 2006.

Munich Re. Hurricanes-More frequent, more intense, more expensive: Insurance in a time of changing risk. May 2006.

Annual Review: Natural catastrophes 2005. Munich Re, May 2006.

Ruth Greenspan Bell. What to Do About Climate Change. Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006.

Ceres. Corporate Governance and Climate Change. March, 2006.

Ruth Greenspan Bell. Market Failure. The Environmental Forum, March/April, 2006.

Ruth Greenspan Bell. The Kyoto Placebo. Issues in Science and Technology, Winter, 2006.

Ford Climate Change Report ( press release) (report).

World Council of Churches. Statement to the High Level Segment of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP11/MOP1). December 9, 2005.

Evan Mills et al. Availability and Affordability of Insurance Under Climate Change: A Growing Challenge. Ceres, December 2005.

Paul Epstein and Evan Mills. Climate Change is Hazardous to Your Health Forbes.com, November 16, 2005.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change. International Climate Efforts Beyond 2012-Report of The Climate Dialogues at Pocantico, November 2005.

K.S.  Lackner and J.D. Sachs. " A robust strategy for sustainable energy use." In W.L. Brainard and G.L. Perry, ed. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. September 22, 2005.    


Consensus Statements on Climate Change

Urgent Request to the Global Community and Its Representatives. 3C: Combat Climate Change- A Business Leaders Initiative. January 2007.

A Call for Action: Consensus Principles and Recommendations from the US Climate Action Partnership, A Business and NGO Partnership. USCAP, January 2007.

Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action. Evangelical Climate Initiative, January, 2006.

Joint science academies' statement: Global response to climate change. June 2005.

Oreskes, Naomi. "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change". Science, December 2004, p 1686

Statement by Robert W. Correll, Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, November 16, 2004.

Scientific Consensus Statement on the Likely Impacts of Climate Change on the Pacific Northwest .
June 15, 2004.