Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Boston Mayor Pledges EV Charging Stations at 10-Minute Walk Intervals
Nov 19 2020 // The Dow Jones Sustainability Index just released their 2020 rankings, and Zurich Insurance Group took the top spot in the insurance sector. The assessment is an annual evaluation of companies’ sustainability...
Canada’s Banks, Insurers to Participate in Pilot Climate Risk Project
Nov 17 2020 // Some of Canada’s largest banks and insurers are set to participate in a pilot project to better understand the risks to the financial system from the transition to a low-carbon economy, Canada’s central bank...
For First Time, Federal Reserve Cites Climate as Financial Stability Risk
Nov 13 2020 // The U.S. Federal Reserve for the first time called out climate change among risks enumerated in its biannual financial stability report, and warned about the potential for abrupt changes in asset values in response to a...
Voters OK’d Local Measures to Fight Climate Change
Nov 5 2020 // Local governments are increasingly taking it upon themselves to address climate change. Denver voters on election day passed Measure 2A, which would raise city sales tax by 0.25% starting in January with the goal of...
Analysis: Exit from Paris Agreement Creates Climate Liability for U.S. Businesses
Nov 5 2020 // The outcome of the U.S. general election is not yet clear. What’s been obvious for months is that climate change was on the ballot, and the U.S. election matters for global climate action. And one thing is certain:...
Rhode Island Climate Change Suit Remains in State Court
Nov 2 2020 // A lawsuit filed by the state of Rhode Island against 21 fossil fuel companies seeking damages for the impacts of climate change will be allowed to proceed in state court, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision...
Australian Pension Fund Agrees to Settle Landmark Climate Risk Litigation
Nov 2 2020 // SYDNEY — One of Australia’s largest pension funds on Monday agreed to settle a landmark climate risk litigation filed by a 25-year-old member who alleged it was failing to protect his retirement savings against...
More Firms Need to Disclose Potential Financial Hit from Climate Change: Regulator
Oct 29 2020 // Too few companies specify their prospective financial hit from climate change under a voluntary global disclosure code that needs wider backing from asset managers and others to be fully effective, a global regulatory body...
Is Climate Change Making Drought One of the Nation’s Costliest Disasters?
Oct 22 2020 // Drought has become one of the costliest disasters in the U.S., causing 94 deaths and an inflation-adjusted $6.2 billion in losses per year on average since 1980, according to a report out this week from Climate...
Bank of England to Require Company Disclosures on Climate Risks
Oct 19 2020 // Current rules on company disclosures to help markets price in risks from climate change will become mandatory, a senior Bank of England official said on Friday. It is the latest push in the financial sector to harmonize...
Climate Change Will Increase Weather Disasters and Need for Humanitarian Aid: U.N.
Oct 14 2020 // GENEVA – In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N. weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international humanitarian help...
Washington Commissioner’s Climate Summit Highlighted Area, Global Vulnerabilities
Oct 8 2020 // “The insurance buying public wants to know that insurance is going to be available and affordable to them when they need it.” That was the take-home message from Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler,...
