Latest Climate Change Headlines

All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Exxon Gets Combative with Critics Suing Over Climate Change Policy

Feb 15 2018 // As climate-change lawsuits against the oil industry mount, Exxon Mobil Corp. is taking a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes: It’s going after the lawyers who are suing it.The company has targeted at...

Climate Change and the ‘Fire Insurance Predicament’

Feb 8 2018 // A Washington-based conservative group is suing for information on the U.S. government’s “backstage work” on the Paris agreement it says will help pave the way for President Trump’s withdrawal from...

Group Urges SEC Probe of California, Cites Climate Hypocrisy

Feb 7 2018 // California officials are downplaying the risks of climate change to bond investors while citing those same risks as the basis for a lawsuit against oil companies, according to a conservative think tank that has asked...

Jeff Davis, ICA, to Speak on Climate Change and Property Losses at Atlanta RIMS

Feb 7 2018 // Charlotte, NC, February 7, 2018 – Insurance Claims Adjusters, LP (ICA) is pleased to announce that Jeff Davis, vice president of claims and director of business development, will be a panelist at the 2018 Atlanta...

Insurance Industry Making ‘Significant Contributions’ in Climate Change Battle, Report Shows

Jan 25 2018 // The insurance industry is making significant contributions to building socio-economic resilience to climate change and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy in their role as risk management experts and...

Aon Benfield’s Christian Named Chair of ClimateWise, Raising Climate Risk Resilience

Jan 18 2018 // Dominic Christian, executive chairman of Aon Benfield International, has been appointed chair of ClimateWise, an organization that aims to help the insurance industry respond to the risks and opportunities of the...

Federal Disaster Mitigation Saves $6 for Every $1 Spent: Report

Jan 12 2018 // Federal programs to protect Americans against extreme weather and other natural disasters save even more money than previously thought, according to a report funded by the same agencies that have proposed cutting many of...

Green Bonds Booming Despite Washington’s Animus, Report Shows

Jan 11 2018 // In spite of the U.S. withdrawal from the global climate change accord hammered out in Paris a year earlier, green bond issuance around the world reached $155.5 billion in 2017, a new report shows.That figure surpassed the...

2017 ‘One of Worst’ for U.S. Weather with 15 Events Costing $1 Billion or More

Dec 29 2017 // In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the U.S. received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet’s temperature: a...

Cities Signing Chicago’s Pact to Tackle Climate Change

Dec 28 2017 // Mayor Rahm Emanuel says 10 more cities have joined Chicago’s effort to address climate change after President Donald Trump said the U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate accord.Emanuel said Tuesday that a total of...

Building for Climate Change: Miami’s High-Net Worth High-Rises as a Model

Dec 28 2017 // The Monad Terrace—a 59-unit Miami Beach luxury condominium—hasn’t been built yet, but its salesroom is up and running.Set on the ground floor of an office building a few blocks from the Monad’s bayfront...

Microsoft Wants to Pit AI Against Climate Change

Dec 21 2017 // Red and green make yellow.And depending on how one feels about climate change, it could be considered a cautionary tale for the U.S. that China plans to create the world’s largest carbon market, possibly making it...

Studies: Global Warming Tripled Likelihood of Harvey’s Deluge

Dec 14 2017 // Global warming’s fingerprints were all over the record rainfall from Hurricane Harvey this year, confirming what scientists suspected, according to new research discussed on Dec. 13 during the American Geophysical...

Scientists Blame Extreme Weather, Heat on Man-Made Climate Change

Dec 14 2017 // Some of last year’s crazy weather — including extreme heat around the world to unusually warm waters in the Bering Sea — can be blamed on man-made climate change, according to a report from a group of...

Tennessee Community Devastated by Fires Doubtful Climate Change Poses Future Risk

Dec 7 2017 // Bob Bentz had just installed underground utility lines and paved a new road when wildfires roared through the eastern Tennessee treetop canopy he wanted to transform into a $30 million adventure park.A year later, after...

Exxon Takes Climate-Change Probe Fight to Massachusetts Top Court

Dec 6 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp urged Massachusetts’ top court on Tuesday to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil...

Island Nations, Such as Bahamas & Jamaica, at High Climate Change Risk: Moody’s

Dec 5 2017 // The Bahamas, Fiji, Jamaica and the Maldives have been identified as among the most vulnerable small island sovereigns in a report on the credit implications of climate change. The Solomon Islands and St. Vincent and the...

Trump Disaster Aid Includes $12B for Cities Battling Climate Change Flooding

Nov 28 2017 // Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change.While President...

Go Ahead and Start a Climate Change Debate at the Thanksgiving Table

Nov 22 2017 // When you pass the turkey gravy on Thursday consider stuffing a hunk of climate change discourse down your uncle Jeb’s gullet.Let him stew until he’s good and fermented, then agitate as needed to see the fruits...

Growing Climate Risks May Be ‘Impossible to Model’ – and Ultimately Uninsurable

Nov 13 2017 // After one of the worst Atlantic hurricane seasons in history, the world’s biggest insurers say the industry needs to get its act together if it wants to survive climate change.Insuring against weather natural...