All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2023 // Artificial intelligence could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday.Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the...
May 5 2023 // Insurers are being forced to rethink their approach to climate change as they assess the risk of being sued for antitrust violations.Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer, recently backed out of the Net Zero...
May 1 2023 // Research on a flat spot for air evacuations. Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of urban firefighters training in wildland firefighting techniques while snow still blankets...
Mar 20 2023 // Climate change is already having a major economic and financial impact on the United States and may trigger asset value losses in coming years that could cascade through the U.S. financial system, Treasury Secretary Janet...
Mar 8 2023 // Canada’s financial industry regulator published a set of guidelines for banks, insurance companies and other regulated firms to assess and disclose climate risks.Financial firms will need to release climate-related...
Mar 7 2023 // Climate change is already having a major economic and financial impact on the United States and may trigger asset value losses in coming years that could cascade through the U.S. financial system, Treasury Secretary Janet...
Mar 7 2023 // Extreme weather caused by climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros [$957.2 billion] in cumulative economic damage by mid-century, a study showed on Monday, as Europe’s biggest economy seeks climate...
Feb 22 2023 // A dozen minors filed a lawsuit with Austria’s top court Tuesday seeking to force the government to ensure their constitutional rights are protected by taking tougher action against climate change.A lawyer for the...
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...