Most Popular Climate Change Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Climate Change and Homeowners’ Insurance Are on a Collision Course
Jun 9 2023 // A summer that has already seen water crises and wildfire smoke is rapidly becoming an inflection point in the pitched battle between climate change and the price of homeowners’ insurance in the US. American...
#2 Climate Change, Nuclear Verdicts Worry Wealthy North Americans: Chubb Survey
Jan 9 2024 // A new Chubb report has found that 76% of wealthy Americans and Canadians believe exposure to extreme weather due to climate change is among the biggest threats to their homes. Sixty-three percent of respondents to the...
#3 Climate Change Sends Most Indicators of Earth’s Health Into Danger Zone: Study
Sep 15 2023 // From dangerously warm temperatures to vast species extinctions, humans are living on a planet that is becoming inhospitable — with only three key health markers considered safe, according to a new scientific...
#4 AIG’s CEO Sees Pandemic, Wars and Climate Change Among Biggest Risks
Oct 20 2023 // American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Peter Zaffino said the biggest challenge to the insurance sector over the last decade has been “unpredictable risks” including the pandemic, wars and...
#5 Florida Commissioner, NAMIC Latest to Push Back on Federal Climate Change Data Call
Dec 6 2023 // Florida’s insurance commissioner and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies are pushing back against a plan by the U.S. Treasury to collect data from insurers on risks from climate change, calling it...
#6 Climate Change Speeds Up as Major Indicators Blow Off the Charts, WMO Warns
Mar 20 2024 // All the major indicators of climate change smashed historic records last year, with some rising so steeply that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization warned they were “off the charts.” The...
#7 London Is Falling Down — Because of Climate Change
Jul 10 2023 // Britain’s increasingly extreme weather is shaking the very foundations of its centuries-old history. The nation has been experiencing prolonged periods of drought after wet winters since last year. That’s...
#8 Climate Change, Wildfire Risk and State Farm’s California Decision
Jun 1 2023 // Several reasons were given within State Farm’s announcement last week the carrier was no longer writing new personal or business property/casualty policies in California – including a challenging reinsurance...
#9 Arbol Unit Buys Centauri Insurance, Forms Lilypad to Broaden Climate Risk Coverage
Apr 22 2024 // A subsidiary of Arbol Inc., a firm that has specialized in climate risks for businesses, including parametric insurance products, has acquired Sarasota, Florida-based Centauri Insurance from Applied Underwriters. The...
#10 Earth Keeps Breaking Temperature Records, Underscoring Dangers of Global Warming
Jul 5 2023 // Global temperatures have smashed through records this week, underscoring the dangers of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions generated from burning fossil fuels. The average worldwide temperature reached 17C (63F) on...
#11 Climate Change Leads to ‘Arctic Opening,’ Creating Key Emerging Risk: Swiss Re
Jun 28 2023 // Climate change is the cause of a key emerging risk identified by Swiss Re’s SONAR report, which is leading to the opening of previously frozen waterways in the Arctic and the creation of new shipping and trade...
#12 3 Emerging Risks to Watch: Rising Lumber Costs, Solar Flares, Underground Climate Change
Oct 16 2023 // The risk landscape is seemingly ever-expanding. While the insurance industry faces the familiar — yet more costly — severe weather activity, there may be new risks emerging below the surface and above the...
#13 Homeowners Face Rising Insurance Rates as Climate Change Makes Wildfires, Storms More Common
Oct 16 2023 // A growing number of Americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a problem only expected to worsen because insurers and lawmakers have underestimated the impact of climate change, a new report...
#14 Climate Change to Cause $38 Trillion a Year in Damages by 2049
Apr 18 2024 // Climate change will inflict losses to the global economy worth an annual $38 trillion by 2049, as extreme weather ravages agricultural yields, harms labor productivity and destroys infrastructure, according to researchers...
#15 Global Warming Exceeded Benchmark Over 12-Month Period for First Time on Record
Feb 9 2024 // Global warming exceeded temperatures of 1.5 degrees C over a 12-month period for the first time in record keeping. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service released its findings in its Global Climate...
#16 Report: Climate Change Boosts Risk of Extreme Wildfires 25%
Sep 5 2023 // A group of scientists used machine learning to quantify empirical relationships between temperature and the risk of extreme daily wildfire growth in California to show the influence of temperature on the risk – and they...
#17 Climate Change Drives Insurance Woes in Louisiana
Sep 11 2023 // A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of town. When the project...
#18 Climate Change, Natural Disasters Sent Texas Homeowners Insurance Rates Skyrocketing in 2023
Dec 1 2023 // Insurance companies across Texas have dramatically increased home insurance rates this year, state filings show, as climate change spooks executives and inflation pushes up costs to rebuild after natural disasters. Texas...
#19 Rhine River’s Low Water Levels Provide ‘Further Evidence’ of Climate Change
Oct 20 2023 // The cost of shipping fuel along the Rhine river has surged as low water levels curb barges’ carrying capacity following a hot, dry September. The river is fed by glaciers and rain. But Alpine ice flows are declining...
#20 City of Chicago Sues Oil and Gas Corporations for Climate Change Deception
Feb 22 2024 // The City of Chicago is suing six oil and gas corporations and their largest trade association for deceiving Chicago consumers about the climate change dangers associated with their products, mayor Brandon Johnson announced...
