All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 17 2022 // Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban interface, and while that notion may not be entirely new, the scope of the increase laid...
Mar 15 2022 // A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.’s effort to stop Massachusetts and New York from probing whether the oil company lied to investors and the public regarding what it knew about climate...
Mar 9 2022 // Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded that a changing climate is making the country a more difficult place to live as he declared recent destructive flooding on the east coast a national...
Mar 8 2022 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to propose its landmark climate risk rule as early as Wednesday, March 16, said two people familiar with the agency’s planning.One of the people, who spoke...
Mar 7 2022 // Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Texas coast in 2017. Then in 2020, ferocious winds from Hurricane Laura destroyed homes across coastal Louisiana. Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, leaving the...
Mar 4 2022 // With this week’s U.N. climate science report laying bare the staggering economic costs and losses already faced from climate change, an inevitable question arises: who should pay?Within U.N. climate negotiations,...
Mar 3 2022 // A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stating that climate change is leading to increasingly irreversible impacts, with a narrowing window to adapt to it, is garnering a lot of reaction.The IPCC...
Mar 1 2022 // Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to limit the suffering, the United Nations climate science panel warned in a major report on Monday.Noting that nearly half the...
Mar 1 2022 // Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a case that could undermine...
Feb 17 2022 // Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by 2050, according to new research.The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature Climate...
Feb 17 2022 // France’s CNP Assurances CNPP.PA will no longer finance new oil and gas projects or invest more money in companies planning to do so, joining the growing ranks of insurers taking a more pro-active approach to tackling...
Feb 3 2022 // Earth’s global average surface temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period, a new report shows.The average tied with 2018 as the sixth...
Feb 2 2022 // With the effects of climate change becoming more palpable, a rise in climate litigation cases could have significant financial and reputational repercussions for corporates. Thomas Englerth, associate director at S&P...
Jan 31 2022 // The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaskans who claimed long-term effects of climate change will devastate Alaska and interfere with their individual constitutional rights.The...
Jan 27 2022 // Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past 25 years, according to an analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released...
Jan 27 2022 // The top challenge currently facing London market insurance companies is climate risk, a new survey by the International Underwriting Association (IUA) has revealed.In a survey of its members, the organization recorded 27%...
Jan 20 2022 // Two-thirds of executives say their companies are “very concerned” about climate change, and 79% believe the world is at “a climate change tipping point,” according to the recently released Deloitte...
Jan 12 2022 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $286.4 billion budget that sets off months of budget talks with his fellow Democrats, who control the state Legislature, before the new fiscal year begins July 1.Newsom focused much...
Jan 10 2022 // Natural disasters across the globe caused economic losses of US$280 billion in 2021, of which roughly US$120 billion were insured, according to a report from Munich Re, which noted that U.S. natural catastrophes...
Jan 5 2022 // The year 2021 ended as the fifth hottest in records maintained by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service that go back to 1979. That finding comes from publicly available data analyzed by Zeke...