All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 1 2019 // Washington had a record 1,850 responses to wildfires on Department of Natural Resources lands last year.Over the last five years, wildfires have continued to hit the state hard. One state official, who believes climate...
Jul 31 2019 // The acquisition of California-based Four Twenty Seven, Inc., by Moody’s Corporation could signify the beginning of a major shift in how markets price risks related to climate change. Up until now, these risks largely...
Jul 26 2019 // Europe’s latest summer heatwave broke heat records just weeks after the continent had its hottest ever June, fueling concern that a shifting climate is triggering more extreme weather.Germany probably set a new...
Jul 18 2019 // Hot, dry weather in California has resulted in a dramatic increase in wildfires. It will get worse – and you can blame climate change, according to a new report out.The report, Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate...
Jul 11 2019 // Electricite de France SA is preparing its nuclear power facilities to operate in more severe heatwaves in the coming decades as a changing climate may interfere with key electrical equipment.The utility, which produces...
Jul 2 2019 // British public companies and pension funds may have to publish by 2022 what risks their businesses face from climate change under a new so-called green finance strategy.Britain last week became the first G7 country to sign...
Jul 1 2019 // Zurich Insurance Group announced it is accelerating actions to progress towards a low-carbon economy “amid an increasing climate crisis.” Its actions range from committing to UN targets for global temperature...
Jul 1 2019 // Global insurer Chubb announced it will no longer underwrite the construction and operation of new coal-fired plants or new risks for companies that generate more than 30% of their revenues from coal mining or energy...
Jul 1 2019 // Accelerating erosion is forcing villages in western Alaska to begin making plans to move, officials said.Erosion caused by climate change threatens village infrastructure and could force the relocation of communities such...
Jun 28 2019 // Europeans fought to stay cool as a blast of hot air from the Sahara desert sent temperatures to records in large parts of the continent and whipped up concern about climate change.Germany imposed speed restrictions on...
Jun 27 2019 // The majority of Americans say global warming is important to them, and that it’s affecting the weather in the U.S.A national survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University...
Jun 24 2019 // One of Britain’s biggest fund managers started selling shares in Exxon Mobil Corp., saying America’s largest oil company isn’t doing enough to address climate change. Legal & General Investment...
Jun 20 2019 // Accelerating erosion is forcing villages in western Alaska to begin making plans to move, officials said.Erosion caused by climate change threatens village infrastructure and could force the relocation of communities such...
Jun 20 2019 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is asking Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature to take steps toward authorizing the state to join a regional consortium that sets a price and caps on greenhouse gas...
Jun 19 2019 // Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but temperatures are on track to reach double that by the end of the century even if countries’ current plans are fully implemented,...
Jun 18 2019 // Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming.Supporters call it the...
Jun 13 2019 // Climate change presents “high exposure risk” to insurers and their policyholders on many fronts:General liability claims for third-party bodily injury and property damage, directors and officers claims for a...
Jun 13 2019 // In a break from years of acrimony over basic science, House Budget Committee members on Tuesday tripped over each other to agree that climate change is not only real but caused by humans.“The last decade has seen...
Jun 6 2019 // Companies are failing to disclose sufficient detail about how exposed they are to the potential risks of climate change, a global task force said in a report on Wednesday.Many investors have called on companies to provide...
Jun 6 2019 // In a courtroom packed with environmental activists, federal judges wrestled Tuesday with whether climate change violates the constitutional rights of young people who have sued the U.S. government over the use of fossil...