Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Weather-Related Disasters Occurred Almost Daily in Past Decade: U.N. Report
Nov 24 2015 // Weather related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report said on Monday. While...
Report: Texas Failing in Assessing, Preparing for Climate Threats
Nov 18 2015 // Texas is failing in assessing and preparing for environmental threats posed by climate change, according to a new report. A recently released study by Climate Central and ICF International, States At Risk: America’s...
More Firms Could Feel Heat from New York AG’s Climate Change Disclosure Win
Nov 13 2015 // The New York state attorney general’s office, which told Peabody Energy this week to give investors more details about how its sales would suffer from measures to curb global warming, is now mulling whether the...
Paper Fingers Climate Change for California Wildfires
Nov 12 2015 // There was a bit of hesitation from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Stephanie C. Herring when she was asked questions about the increased risk and the implications of that risk for the insurance...
Climate Risk May Hit Equity Portfolios as Investor Sentiment Shifts: Study
Nov 12 2015 // Equity portfolios may lose as much as 45 percent of their value due to shifting investor sentiment about climate change, according to a report by. Investors are becoming more aware of the short-term impact that the warming...
Economics of Climate Change, Climate Fiction and Climate Control
Oct 29 2015 // With fresh news out on the global economic cost of climate change, an enticing climate fiction contest and a sweet victory for this column, it would take until Christmas to individually cover it all in a bimonthly...
Insurers Unprepared for Costs of Climate Change, Warns UN Climate Diplomat
Oct 28 2015 // Insurers are unprepared for the costs of climate change, the top United Nations climate diplomat said as world leaders make final preparations for a deal on global warming. The agreement, which the UN expects to seal in...
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...
