Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
What Are the Economic Stakes of Climate Change?
Oct 25 2021 // COP26 climate talks in Glasgow starting next Sunday may be the world’s best last chance to cap global warming at the 1.5-2 degrees Celsius upper limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The stakes for the planet...
Climate Change Makes Drought Recovery Tougher in Western U.S.
Oct 22 2021 // Californians rejoiced this week when big drops of water started falling from the sky for the first time in any measurable way since the spring, an annual soaking that heralds the start of the rainy season following some of...
Worsening Off-Season Floods in Venice Trigger Fears About Climate Change Impact
Oct 22 2021 // VENICE, Italy (AP) – After Venice suffered the second-worst flood in its history in November 2019, it was inundated with four more exceptional tides within six weeks, shocking Venetians and triggering fears about the...
Top Regulators’ Roadmap Addresses Climate Change as Threat to U.S. Financial Stability
Oct 22 2021 // Climate change is an “emerging threat” to U.S. financial stability that regulators should address in their everyday work, a top U.S. regulatory panel said on Thursday, a first for the United States which has...
New Zealand Is 1st Country to Pass Climate Change Disclosure Laws for Insurers, Banks
Oct 21 2021 // New Zealand has become the first country to pass laws requiring banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, officials said on Thursday. About 200 of the largest...
Federal Government Seeks Insurance Industry Input on Climate Change
Oct 18 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. With flooding from hurricane Ida in the east and fires raging on the west coast as a backdrop, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a solicitation for input from the...
Global Construction Industry Faces Climate Change Challenges, Opportunities: Marsh
Oct 18 2021 // By L.S. Howard Climate change and the race to net zero greenhouse gas emissions (net zero) are arguably the greatest challenges that face the construction industry — but will drive new opportunities, according to a...
Corporate Climate Risk Disclosures Still Falling Short, Regulators Say
Oct 15 2021 // Around half of companies assessed have begun to apply globally agreed climate-related disclosure standards for helping investors to pick firms committed to sustainability, regulators said on Thursday. A task force set up...
New Jersey Releases Final Climate Change Resiliency Strategy
Oct 14 2021 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Interagency Council on Climate Resilience released the final version of the state’s first Climate Change Resiliency Strategy, a science-based blueprint for protecting New...
Biden Administration Wants Federal Contracts to Reflect Climate Risk
Oct 14 2021 // The Biden administration on Thursday began a process to amend federal procurement rules to require the U.S. government – the world’s largest buyer of goods and services – to factor the risks of climate...
Vulnerable to Climate Change, England Must ‘Adapt or Die’, Agency Warns
Oct 14 2021 // England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, a governmental agency said Wednesday. In...
Climate Swat Team Aims to Identify When Global Warming Causes Extreme Weather
Oct 11 2021 // When weather disaster strikes, observers near and far ask the same question: Climate change—is it or isn’t it? The simplest answer, yes, lacks specificity. All weather is a joint human-nature venture, because...
Climate Change Impact: 40% Chance of ‘100-Year Storms’ Over 20-Year Span
Oct 6 2021 // While events like Hurricane Ida and a Texas winter freeze demonstrate wide-reaching impacts of climate change to all but ardent deniers, even insurers and reinsurers may not fully appreciate all the risks, a new report...
Global Construction Industry Faces Climate Change Challenges, Opportunities: Marsh
Oct 1 2021 // Climate change and the race to net zero greenhouse gas emissions (net zero) are arguably the greatest challenges that face the construction industry – but will drive new opportunities, according to a report published by...
Climate Change Ranks as Top Concern for Insurers, Replacing Pandemic
Sep 29 2021 // Climate change has returned to the top of the list of insurers’ biggest concerns as the vaccine roll-out and gradual lifting of health restrictions see pandemic fears ease in many countries. Global warming was ranked...
Global Reinsurers Could Be Greatly Underestimating Exposure to Climate Risk: S&P
Sep 24 2021 // Reinsurers’ estimates of their exposure to natural catastrophe risk could be underestimated by 33%-50%, according to a report published by S&P Global Ratings. “Unmodeled risks and the inherent difficulties...
Climate Change Could Force 200 Million People to Leave Their Homes by 2050
Sep 15 2021 // Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a...
What Smart People Get Wrong About Climate Change Extremes: Opinion
Sep 14 2021 // If anyone should be attuned to the real-world impacts of global warming, it’s the policy makers and business heads that have to deal with the fallout. But even the most well-intentioned can fail to grasp just how bad...
Climate Risk is Shaping Insurance – Here’s How
Sep 2 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. The New Paradigm of Climate-Conscious Insurance As climate change alters the atmosphere and increases the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes, insurers must...
Connecticut Insurance Department to Host Conference on Climate Change, Insurance
Aug 31 2021 // The Connecticut Insurance Department and U.S. experts on climate change, resiliency, mitigation and adaptation are leading a discussion on what the insurance industry should consider to mitigate and adapt. On October 13...
