Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jeff Davis, ICA, to Speak on Climate Change and Property Losses at Atlanta RIMS
Feb 7 2018 // Charlotte, NC, February 7, 2018 – Insurance Claims Adjusters, LP (ICA) is pleased to announce that Jeff Davis, vice president of claims and director of business development, will be a panelist at the 2018 Atlanta...
Insurance Industry Making ‘Significant Contributions’ in Climate Change Battle, Report Shows
Jan 25 2018 // The insurance industry is making significant contributions to building socio-economic resilience to climate change and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy in their role as risk management experts and...
Aon Benfield’s Christian Named Chair of ClimateWise, Raising Climate Risk Resilience
Jan 18 2018 // Dominic Christian, executive chairman of Aon Benfield International, has been appointed chair of ClimateWise, an organization that aims to help the insurance industry respond to the risks and opportunities of the...
Federal Disaster Mitigation Saves $6 for Every $1 Spent: Report
Jan 12 2018 // Federal programs to protect Americans against extreme weather and other natural disasters save even more money than previously thought, according to a report funded by the same agencies that have proposed cutting many of...
Green Bonds Booming Despite Washington’s Animus, Report Shows
Jan 11 2018 // In spite of the U.S. withdrawal from the global climate change accord hammered out in Paris a year earlier, green bond issuance around the world reached $155.5 billion in 2017, a new report shows. That figure surpassed the...
2017 ‘One of Worst’ for U.S. Weather with 15 Events Costing $1 Billion or More
Dec 29 2017 // In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the U.S. received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet’s temperature: a...
Cities Signing Chicago’s Pact to Tackle Climate Change
Dec 28 2017 // Mayor Rahm Emanuel says 10 more cities have joined Chicago’s effort to address climate change after President Donald Trump said the U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate accord. Emanuel said Tuesday that a total of...
Building for Climate Change: Miami’s High-Net Worth High-Rises as a Model
Dec 28 2017 // The Monad Terrace—a 59-unit Miami Beach luxury condominium—hasn’t been built yet, but its salesroom is up and running. Set on the ground floor of an office building a few blocks from the Monad’s bayfront...
Microsoft Wants to Pit AI Against Climate Change
Dec 21 2017 // Red and green make yellow. And depending on how one feels about climate change, it could be considered a cautionary tale for the U.S. that China plans to create the world’s largest carbon market, possibly making it...
Studies: Global Warming Tripled Likelihood of Harvey’s Deluge
Dec 14 2017 // Global warming’s fingerprints were all over the record rainfall from Hurricane Harvey this year, confirming what scientists suspected, according to new research discussed on Dec. 13 during the American Geophysical...
Scientists Blame Extreme Weather, Heat on Man-Made Climate Change
Dec 14 2017 // Some of last year’s crazy weather — including extreme heat around the world to unusually warm waters in the Bering Sea — can be blamed on man-made climate change, according to a report from a group of...
Tennessee Community Devastated by Fires Doubtful Climate Change Poses Future Risk
Dec 7 2017 // Bob Bentz had just installed underground utility lines and paved a new road when wildfires roared through the eastern Tennessee treetop canopy he wanted to transform into a $30 million adventure park. A year later, after...
Exxon Takes Climate-Change Probe Fight to Massachusetts Top Court
Dec 6 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp urged Massachusetts’ top court on Tuesday to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil...
Island Nations, Such as Bahamas & Jamaica, at High Climate Change Risk: Moody’s
Dec 5 2017 // The Bahamas, Fiji, Jamaica and the Maldives have been identified as among the most vulnerable small island sovereigns in a report on the credit implications of climate change. The Solomon Islands and St. Vincent and the...
Trump Disaster Aid Includes $12B for Cities Battling Climate Change Flooding
Nov 28 2017 // Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change. While President...
Go Ahead and Start a Climate Change Debate at the Thanksgiving Table
Nov 22 2017 // When you pass the turkey gravy on Thursday consider stuffing a hunk of climate change discourse down your uncle Jeb’s gullet. Let him stew until he’s good and fermented, then agitate as needed to see the fruits...
Growing Climate Risks May Be ‘Impossible to Model’ – and Ultimately Uninsurable
Nov 13 2017 // After one of the worst Atlantic hurricane seasons in history, the world’s biggest insurers say the industry needs to get its act together if it wants to survive climate change. Insuring against weather natural...
Resilience Economics Bringing Climate Products to New Sectors
Nov 9 2017 // Resilience Economics Ltd. seems poised to capitalize on climate change. Cedent Ltd. this month launched the corporate finance advisory firm focused on climate risk with an initial $500 million of capacity from strategic...
How Warming Seas Could Cost South Carolina $12 Billion
Nov 6 2017 // If oceans warm at a rate predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nation-sponsored group that assesses climate change research and issues periodic reports, expected financial losses caused by...
U.S. Cities Ranked Most Vulnerable to Coastal Floods Due to Climate Change
Oct 26 2017 // This week is the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, which developed in late October and moved over the East Coast starting on Oct. 29, 2012, causing more than $70 billion in damage and killing 280 people. To mark that...
