All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 25 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Monday asked all insurance companies doing business in California to voluntarily divest from their investments in thermal coal as part of a nationwide call to reduce carbon...
Jan 21 2016 // The impact from climate change is more imminent than most believe, and it’s going to take a big economic chunk out of a lot of bottom-lines.That’s according to a recent report from the Institute for Policy...
Jan 14 2016 // Climate change and large-scale forced migration are the greatest risks facing the world according to a survey by the World Economic Forum, the organizer of next week’s meeting in Davos.The 2016 report, published...
Jan 7 2016 // Asked for his thoughts on climate change, Frank Nutter expeditiously turned to science.His sphere of influence is far-ranging as president of the Reinsurance Association of America, a position he’s held since 1991....
Jan 4 2016 // Insurers paid out around $27 billion for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring the challenge posed by climate change, data from reinsurer Munich Re showed on...
Dec 23 2015 // If you think you heard a lot about climate change in 2015, wait till next year – or next week depending on how you want to look at it.Next year may be on track to the be warmest year on record, according to the...
Dec 17 2015 // A report says islanders in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay could be among the first “climate change refugees” in the continental United States.The research published in the journal Scientific Reports says...
Dec 14 2015 // The world’s nations took the boldest steps yet to stem climate change, adopting an historic package of measures to limit fossil-fuel pollution and establish a mechanism to step up the reductions for decades.After two...
Dec 11 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 10 2015 // You’d think just about everyone who’s anyone attended the massive climate change summit in Paris ending this week.The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, drew an estimated 50,000 attendees to...
Dec 9 2015 // In Buffalo, it hasn’t snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what’s already...
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 3 2015 // A judge has ruled against a 13-year-old girl who took North Carolina to court over climate change, but the eighth-grader says she’ll continue to fight for environmental protections.The News & Observer of Raleigh...
Nov 25 2015 // The planet is halfway to dangerous levels of global warming, with the average temperature for 2015 set to eclipse last year’s record, the United Nations said.This year’s average temperature will be...
Nov 25 2015 // You have to be either strange or bored to Google the phrase, “What do climate change and Thanksgiving have in common?”So I did. Believe it or not I got results, and found that there are at least two things...
Nov 24 2015 // Allianz SE is turning its back on coal as returns evaporate from energy generation that is harmful to the environment.Europe’s largest insurer plans to exit holdings in mining companies and utilities that derive more...
Nov 24 2015 // Leaders of 78 major companies urged governments on Monday to include the pricing of carbon emissions as part of policies to curb global warming, as world leaders prepare for a summit on climate change in Paris next...
Nov 24 2015 // Weather related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report said on Monday.While the...
Nov 18 2015 // Texas is failing in assessing and preparing for environmental threats posed by climate change, according to a new report.A recently released study by Climate Central and ICF International, States At Risk: America’s...
Nov 13 2015 // The New York state attorney general’s office, which told Peabody Energy this week to give investors more details about how its sales would suffer from measures to curb global warming, is now mulling whether the...