Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maryland Capital Sues Oil, Gas Companies Over Climate Change
Mar 1 2021 // Maryland’s capital city has filed a lawsuit against 26 oil and gas companies, saying their industry was taking the environment to a point where fighting climate change would be difficult. The City of Annapolis filed...
Florida Lawmakers Unveil $100M Plan to Tackle Climate Change, Sea Rise
Mar 1 2021 // Low-lying Florida, surrounded by the sea, is one of the most vulnerable U.S. states to ocean level rise driven by climate change. State Republican legislative leaders on Friday announced a $100 million-a-year plan to...
Kenya Seeks More Crop Insurance to Cover Small Farms from Climate Change Risks
Feb 25 2021 // Kenya’s agriculture ministry has opened bids for crop insurance providers to cover more smallholder farmers from the risks and shocks of climate change, under a government program, according to a statement in...
UK Prime Minister Warns Climate Change Is Threat to World Security
Feb 25 2021 // British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned world leaders Tuesday that climate change is a threat to security of all nations and sharply criticized people across the globe who say this is “green stuff from a bunch of...
AXA, Other Mega-Investors Seek to Avoid Portfolios with Global Warming Potential
Feb 24 2021 // All good money managers expect to outperform their benchmark, and by one such metric the French insurer and investor AXA SA recently scored a market-beating success. Not by delivering higher returns, but by generating a...
Securities Regulators Back International Climate Risk Disclosure Body
Feb 11 2021 // Global market regulators have thrown their weight behind plans for a new international standards body for company disclosures on climate risks and sustainability, saying it would cut the scope for so-called...
Climate Group Urges South Carolina Towns to Tackle Climate Change
Feb 4 2021 // A new group in Charleston is committed to lowering the area’s carbon footprint, and they’ve notched a recent success on James Island. The Charleston Climate Coalition, an all-volunteer group, was a driving...
Climate Change Is Causing Sea Levels to Rise Faster than Most Forecasts
Feb 2 2021 // Climate change is causing oceans to rise quicker than scientists’ most pessimistic forecasts, resulting in earlier flood risks to coastal economies already struggling to adapt. The revised estimates published Tuesday...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Vetoes Sweeping Climate Change Bill
Jan 20 2021 // Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker vetoed a sweeping climate change bill Thursday, just days after top Democratic lawmakers on Beacon Hill vowed to immediately refile and pass it again if the Republican refused to sign...
Supreme Court Hears Baltimore’s Climate Change Damages Claim Against Energy Firms
Jan 20 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with a dispute that one justice called a “close call” over a lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore against energy companies seeking monetary damages due to the impact...
How Climate Change May Affect Hurricane Risk and Losses: AIR, Brookings, AXIS
Jan 19 2021 // By 2050, climate change-related weather events will have a meaningful impact on future hurricane losses, increasing them by 20% or more and in some cases doubling them, even without any increase in the concentration of...
Warming Arctic Is Key to Understanding Climate Change Risks, Experts Say
Jan 14 2021 // HONG KONG/BRUSSELS – The environmental transformation happening in the Arctic is key to understanding the potential global impacts of climate change, an Alaska Native leader and a polar explorer told the Reuters Next...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Climate Change Bill
Jan 11 2021 // Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said last week he is reviewing legislation passed by lawmakers that would overhaul the state’s climate laws, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create renewable energy jobs and...
Earth Draws Closer to Climate Change Tipping Points After Another Year of Record Heat
Jan 8 2021 // Another year of record-high heat punctuated a decade-long increase in global temperatures that has placed the Earth’s economies dangerously close to climate tipping points. Those are the conclusions published Friday...
Climate Change Poses Much Greater Existential Risk for the World Than COVID-19
Dec 18 2020 // Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change ultimately will be managed by “bending the curve” of temperature rises and greenhouse gas emissions, according to Rowan Douglas, Head of Climate and Resilience...
Shell Fights Landmark Case Alleging Its Climate Change Stance Harms Human Rights
Dec 17 2020 // Royal Dutch Shell Plc is in court in The Hague for the final hearing in a landmark case that could force it to reduce its carbon footprint. The case brought by the Dutch arm of Friends of the Earth, Milieudefensie, links...
Central American Storms in 2020 Preview What’s Ahead with Climate Change: Experts
Dec 4 2020 // HAVANA/GUATEMALA CITY – Villagers in Guatemala’s Mayan hillside hamlet Sanimtaca had been about to harvest their cardamom crops that take three years to grow when waves of floodwater triggered by two tropical...
Environmentalists Say U.S. Insurers Lag Behind Peers on Fossil Fuels
Dec 3 2020 // U.S. insurance companies lag behind their global peers by enabling the fossil fuel industry, according to a report from an environmentalist group out this week. The Insure Our Future campaign released its fourth annual...
AXA’s Chief Risk and Investment Officer Says Biodiversity Loss Among ‘Very Top Risks’
Dec 3 2020 // AXA Group’s chief risk and investment officer, Alban de Mailly Nesle is required to ponder myriad dangers to the Paris-based insurer and its 830 billion-euro ($995 billion) asset management arm. He says one of the...
Shell Faces Climate Change Lawsuit in Dutch Court
Dec 1 2020 // AMSTERDAM – Environmental activists took Royal Dutch Shell to court on Tuesday, demanding the energy firm drastically reduce the production of oil and gas to limit its effects on climate change. Seven activist groups,...
