All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2023 // Nearly every other American believes that people in the U.S. are being harmed by global warming right now.It may be a bit of a revelation that half of the nation believes climate change is here and now. What’s not...
Feb 9 2023 // A group of European institutional investors is backing a novel London lawsuit against energy giant Shell’s board over alleged climate mismanagement in a case that could have far-reaching implications for how...
Jan 12 2023 // The UK needs “a step change” in its approach to slashing carbon emissions if it is to eliminate greenhouse gases by 2050, according to a review commissioned by the government.The country is not doing enough to...
Jan 11 2023 // Failure to tackle climate change and environmental degradation dominate the ranking of top risks facing the planet in the next decade, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risk specialists found.Moreover,...
Dec 14 2022 // Pension funds across the European Union would lose billions of euros from their investments in polluting industries without action to mitigate the impact of climate change, the bloc’s first stress test of its kind...
Dec 5 2022 // In a letter to the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners expressed its “deep concern” over a proposal to collect data on climate-related risks from...
Nov 23 2022 // In a letter to the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners expressed its “deep concern” over a proposal to collect data on climate-related risks from...
Nov 16 2022 // Climate change has raised the cost of natural disasters, as rising sea levels and drought increase the frequency and severity of flooding and wildfires, insurers and risk modeling experts say.The list of the 10 most...
Nov 9 2022 // While delegates at the COP27 climate conference discuss the shared problem of climate change, each country will face its own challenges and threats.In February, the U.N. climate science agency released a major report on...
Nov 7 2022 // Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic...
Nov 3 2022 // In an Executive Order dated September 25, California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed all agencies of state government to double down on their efforts to address climate change. The governor, state agencies and the Legislature...
Oct 24 2022 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the “social cost of carbon” calculation used by President Joe Biden’s administration, which sharply boosts the price tag policy makers will put on the environmental...
Oct 24 2022 // Climate change remains at the top of insurance companies’ biggest concerns even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stokes geopolitical and energy-related fears within the industry.Global warming is considered as...
Oct 20 2022 // New Jersey officials announced a lawsuit Tuesday against five oil and gas companies and a petroleum trade organization, alleging they had known for decades about the harmful impact of fossil fuels on climate change but...
Oct 19 2022 // Shortly after Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) proposed to have P/C insurers submit homeowners insurance underwriting data to assess climate risk, the response from industry trade associations was, at best,...
Oct 6 2022 // Climate change made droughts in the Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely this year, a new study by a team of U.S. and international scientists shows.The scientists, part of World Weather Attribution, a group that...
Oct 3 2022 // Human-induced climate change, long denied by some elected officials in the states pounded by Hurricane Ian, made the storm’s most extreme rainfall about 10% worse than it would have been without two centuries of...
Sep 29 2022 // Methane leaks have emerged as a top threat to the global climate, with the latest incident involving two Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea that are at the heart of an energy crisis since Russia invaded...
Sep 22 2022 // Climate change combined with a third consecutive La Niña is “not a good thing,” a scientist is warning.Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist, professor and dean of the School for Environment and...
Sep 19 2022 // A Virginia judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 young people who claim that the state’s permitting of fossil fuel projects is exacerbating climate change and violating their constitutional...