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Homeowners’ insurance is the latest climate casualty. Could business coverage be next?
by Joel Makower
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The climate crisis stands to roil the insurance industry along with its customers, including renewables and other climate tech entrepreneurs and developers.
by Joel Makower
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Will insurers and banks step up to help reduce risk and build resistance — or contribute to crashing the economy?
by Joel Makower
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Capitalism is stepping in, doing what it does best: aligning markets and prices with risks and opportunities associated with climate change.
by Joel Makower
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Companies are facing losses from severe storms, floods, droughts, hurricanes and wildfires. Can the insurance industry do anything to change that?
by Joel Makower
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A steady parade of innovators in large and small companies have tried to create more environmentally benign alternatives to plastic; after decades of slow progress, bioplastics are sprouting like weeds.
by Joel Makower
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From Starbucks to Walmart, companies have been taking major strides in giving what would normally be waste at least one more go-round on store shelves.
by Joel Makower
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Water security is becoming a strategic issue as companies increasingly understand how looming crises will affect business operations, from manufacturing to markets.
by Joel Makower
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Revelations of toxics ingredients in consumer products reached a crescendo in 2010, even as companies and governments work feverishly on new, safer alternatives.
by Joel Makower
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Until now, it's been a truism about sustainable business that there are too many standards and not enough metrics; but a number of organizations are stepping up to fill in the gaps.
by Joel Makower
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It wasn't very long ago that "sustainable agriculture" was the solely domain of the natural foods industry, but 2010 saw all the big players -- including and especially Walmart -- sowing the seeds of a new kind of food revolution.
by Joel Makower
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Although 2010 will likely be remembered as the year of the rebirth of the electric car, green shipping innovations took place also on the land, in the sea and in the air throughout last year.
by Joel Makower
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Environmental issues in developing economies have long been of concern to Western companies, but some issues -- from rare earth metals to palm oil -- are becoming more strategic to companies and countries alike.
by Joel Makower
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The notion of factories without Dumpsters isn't new, but in recent years a number of companies across industries have put "zero waste" squarely in their sights.
by Joel Makower
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During 2010, we saw a steady march of progress, with some of the world’s biggest companies and brands putting a stake in the ground in the name of environmental (and sometimes social) sustainability.
by Joel Makower
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In the first of our series on the biggest trends in green business practices in 2010, we look at the ways the world's biggest consumer brands -- P&G, Unilever, Kraft and others -- have stepped off the sidelines and into the green arena.
by Joel Makower
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Shaken by the losses they're seeing from the early signs of global climate chaos, large insurers are starting to press their corporate clients on the topic.
by Joel Makower
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If government policies won't lead to aggressive action on climate change, maybe the insurance industry will.
by Joel Makower