All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 29 2020 // The Bank of England (BoE) has told banks and insurers to press ahead with analyzing the impact of climate change on their operations, saying that guidance published on Monday would be followed by targets next year.The...
Jun 26 2020 // The attorney general for the District of Columbia on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Chevron Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for “systematically and intentionally misleading”...
Jun 26 2020 // We now live in a world where climate gentrification exists: People and institutions are starting to assess and appraise properties based on their susceptibility to climate impacts. The idea was largely hypothetical as...
Jun 25 2020 // The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Koch Industries for what it called a decades-long campaign to deceive the public about climate change.The lawsuit...
Jun 23 2020 // In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of...
Jun 18 2020 // Economic growth can be boosted, jobs can be saved or even created and greenhouse gas emissions can be cut if we take advantage of the worldwide changes that have occurred as we hunkered down in response to the COVID-19...
Jun 11 2020 // Climate change is expected to cause stronger storm winds that trigger more extreme waves and increase coastal damage in Australia, the Pacific and South America by the end of the century, new research shows. Extreme waves...
Jun 4 2020 // Climate change is a systemic risk with wide-ranging potential physical impacts, according to a new report that also serves as a call-to-action for U.S financial regulators to do more to deal with a changing climate.An...
Jun 4 2020 // A massive fuel spill in Siberia prompted Russia to declare a state of emergency in the region as the mining company involved said the catastrophe may have been caused by climate change.Scientists have warned for years that...
May 29 2020 // Big Oil lost a pair of court battles Tuesday that could lead to trials in lawsuits by California cities and counties seeking damages for the impact of climate change.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments...
May 28 2020 // Big Oil lost a pair of court battles this week that could lead to trials in lawsuits by California cities and counties seeking damages for the impact of climate change.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected...
May 21 2020 // Climate risk is widely seen in the financial community as being improperly priced.A recent survey with an emphasis on the financial sector shows the overwhelming majority of respondents think that climate risk has only...
May 8 2020 // Almost exactly four years ago the World Bank announced a pioneering project, the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, designed to develop a new insurance market and protect the world’s poorest countries against...
May 8 2020 // Roughly a third of the global population could experience an average annual temperature of 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit (29C) in the next 50 years, with temperatures currently found in small part of the planet, mostly...
Apr 28 2020 // Germany’s spring showers haven’t materialized this year, and that’s drying out the country’s most important river, prompting concerns that key industrial goods might have trouble making it to their...
Apr 16 2020 // “Sea-level rise will radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century.”That’s from a new study that shows rising sea levels could lead to extreme flooding events in some U.S. coastal areas doubling...
Apr 8 2020 // Global warming will lead to growing intensity and frequency of severe weather events, rising losses, as well as greater uncertainty in the assessment of these events by the insurance industry, which could make some weather...
Mar 31 2020 // Hours after the results of a risk model reached the public, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Donald Trump asked nearly 400 million people to upend their lives.A group of epidemiologists at Imperial...
Mar 20 2020 // Exxon Mobil Corp. suffered a setback in a climate change case when a federal judge ruled that a consumer protection lawsuit filed by Massachusetts should go back to state court.U.S. District Judge William G. Young in...
Mar 19 2020 // Severe weather events and demographic challenges will continue to strain government finances, a trend that will require “a rethink of how catastrophic events are funded” and push the need for greater use of...