Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change Adds Billions to U.S. Hurricane Losses: Study
Oct 20 2015 // Climate change has added billions to the toll of hurricane strikes on the U.S., according to a study that challenges the prevailing scientific view that the rising cost is mainly because more buildings, towns and...
UN Climate Negotiators in Final Effort before Paris to Achieve ‘Post-Carbon’ Era
Oct 19 2015 // Climate negotiators are meeting today in Bonn to take a last crack at a draft plan aimed at nudging the world into a post-carbon era. The five-day gathering marks the final round of United Nations talks before envoys,...
10 Oil & Gas Bosses Seek to Improve Image Before Climate Change Summit
Oct 16 2015 // Oil and gas industry bosses called for an “effective” agreement at the United Nations climate change summit in December, recognizing that current greenhouse gas emissions were inconsistent with the goal of...
Climate Change Means Wildfire Seasons May Continue: Professor
Oct 15 2015 // The drought-plagued western U.S. has had more than its share of fires this year – but this may not be the last year that the nation sees so many wildfires gone wild. A Yale University professor looking back over the last...
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo: Denying Global Warming Isn’t a Survival Plan
Oct 13 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Oct. 8 joined government leaders worldwide in signing an agreement to help combat global warming and keep the Earth’s average temperature from rising dangerously. The Under Two MOU, a...
Laws May Enforce Some Environment Treaties, but Not for Climate Change
Oct 12 2015 // If and when a global deal to curb climate change is done in Paris this December, the matter of enforcement is likely to be left not to sanctions, but to peer pressure. While legally enforceable environmental treaties do...
Watchdog Says Corporations Say One Thing, Do Another on Climate Change
Oct 1 2015 // It’s all a masquerade. The business world has not embraced action on climate change as statements from some corporations seem to indicate. So says a new watchdog group out of London. Nonprofit InfluenceMap late last...
UK Insurers Call for Collective Action to Address Climate Change
Oct 1 2015 // Lloyd’s of London and other UK insurers called for collective action to address climate change on Thursday, after a report from the UK regulator this week highlighted risks to their industry from global warming. In...
Bank of England Governor: Insurers Face Huge Exposure to Climate Change Risks
Sep 30 2015 // Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said UK insurers face potentially “huge” exposure to shifts in climate-change policy and Group of 20 nations need to do more to combat associated financial stability...
Institutional Investors’ Fossil-Fuel Divestment Exceeds $2.6 Trillion
Sep 23 2015 // Portfolio managers have pledged to steer $2.6 trillion in investments away from fossil fuels in an effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. That’s a 50-fold increase from the cumulative total a year ago, $50...
Pacific Islanders Plead for Action on Climate Change as Sea Levels Rise
Sep 21 2015 // The village where Anote Tong attended school some 40 years ago is no longer there. As the Pacific Ocean encroached on the settlement, the villagers left for higher ground. “There is a church building and a meeting...
‘Ridesharing’ a Climate Change Solution around the Corner
Sep 17 2015 // The solution to reducing carbon emissions may be just around the corner. Car sharing can reduce gas consumption and could ultimately help in the battle to curb climate change, according to a Natural Resources Defense...
Governments Must Act to Cap Global Warming at UN Summit: Reinsurers
Sep 17 2015 // Politicians must act to cap global warming when they meet at a United Nations summit at the end of the year as the financial and humanitarian consequences of natural catastrophes become ever clearer, reinsurers meeting at...
California Climate Change Bills Unlikely to See Easy Passage
Sep 9 2015 // California lawmakers negotiated frantically behind the scenes on Tuesday over the fate of several proposals to dramatically reduce the state’s use of fossil fuels and slash the amount of greenhouse gases that legally...
National Emissions Plans Fall Short to Limit Climate Change – UN Study
Sep 3 2015 // National plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions fall short of tough action needed to slow climate change under a United Nations agreement due in Paris in December, European researchers said on Wednesday. The plans...
As Climate Talks Resume, Divisions Between Poor & Rich Nations Highlighted
Sep 1 2015 // Just days before global negotiators were set to meet for talks on climate change, Tropical Storm Erika killed at least 20 people on Dominica. The small Caribbean island evoked the tragedy to highlight divisions between...
Sierra Club Dragging State Farm into Climate Change Battle
Aug 27 2015 // A State Farm executive is coming under fire from activists for his position on the board of what some consider to be a “climate denier” group. Sierra Club, a progressive investor group and other activist...
Chilling Out Will Be Answer to Climate Change, Scientist Says
Aug 13 2015 // What to do about a warming planet? Just crank up the air-conditioning. No one’s being a smart aleck, and you won’t find any sarcasm in a recent study by a Stanford University professor that shows what it will...
Is Climate Change Now Its Own Industry?
Jul 30 2015 // Interest in climate change is becoming an increasingly powerful economic driver, so much so that some see it as an industry in itself whose growth is driven in large part by policymaking. The $1.5 trillion global...
UK’s Aviva to Target $3.9B in Renewable Energy Investments
Jul 27 2015 // Aviva plc will target 2.5 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) of investments in renewables and energy efficiency over five years to cut exposure to climate risks. The company, which manages about 250 billion pounds of assets,...
