All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2018 // The city of Baltimore filed a lawsuit on Friday against 26 oil and gas companies and entities, including BP Plc, Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp, for knowingly contributing to what the city called the catastrophic...
Jul 23 2018 // A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say the U.S. government is ignoring the perils of climate change.By a 3-0...
Jul 20 2018 // A U.S. judge threw out New York’s lawsuit seeking to hold five of the world’s biggest oil companies financially responsible for contributing to climate change.U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed the...
Jul 20 2018 // Poring over four decades of satellite data, climate scientists have concluded for the first time that humans are pushing seasonal temperatures out of balance—shifting what one researcher called the very “march of...
Jul 19 2018 // Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell has directed city departments and agencies to prepare for the effects of climate change and sea level rise. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported the mayor issued the mandate this week,...
Jul 12 2018 // There’s a surefire way to get more people to believe in global warming.Just crank up the heat. A larger percentage of Americans say there is “solid evidence” of global warming than at any time since 2008,...
Jul 12 2018 // Some of Europe’s largest banks are unveiling plans to lend and manage money in greener ways as pressure mounts to account for risks associated with climate change.“It is coming, it’s a trend that’s...
Jul 2 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jun 26 2018 // BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. escaped blame for the public costs of global warming when a U.S. judge ruled that lawsuits by cities against oil companies aren’t the answer to climate change.“The...
Jun 22 2018 // Canada has an environmental message for Donald Trump: you can’t stop the global campaign against climate change and you will hurt the U.S. by abandoning the battle.Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister...
Jun 21 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jun 18 2018 // Last month, a group of 10 families filed an action against the European Union at the European General Court, the EU’s second highest court. All claim to have suffered loss from climate change. Specifically, they...
Jun 15 2018 // Global warming is on course to exceed the most stringent goal set in the Paris agreement by around 2040, threatening economic growth, according to a draft report that is the U.N.’s starkest warning yet of the risks...
Jun 15 2018 // A group of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to climate change.ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron...
Jun 1 2018 // The world’s deepest-pocketed investors are starting to take climate change seriously, according to Amundi SA.“We are really observing a tipping point among the institutional investors on climate change,”...
May 31 2018 // The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has published guidance for companies reporting on the physical impact of climate change in their financial results.Concerns in the financial community that assets are...
May 24 2018 // Costs from climate change-driven extreme weather events are on the rise, and the amount of time left to stop those impacts before they get progressively worse is rapidly closing, according to a Columbia University...
May 22 2018 // After paying more than $65 billion in legal costs for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, BP Plc is wary of the risk of lawsuits related to climate change.Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley raised the topic of class-action...
May 21 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has run a “stress test” on the state’s largest insurers.Jones said during a press conference in May that he is the first U.S. financial regulator to conduct a...
May 10 2018 // The Allianz Group “is significantly expanding its climate strategy.”The German insurance giant recently announced a commitment to support the change to a low-carbon economy over the coming decades, and is...