March 17, 2022
A new report from Moody’s ESG Solutions drives home the point that climate change is here and now, and it is already causing death and destruction. The report from Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme, assistant vice president-outreach & research, for Moody’s ESG …
March 3, 2022
A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stating that climate change is leading to increasingly irreversible impacts, with a narrowing window to adapt to it, is garnering a lot of reaction. The IPCC Working Group II report: Climate …
February 17, 2022
Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by 2050, according to new research. The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature Climate Change, also …
February 3, 2022
Earth’s global average surface temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period, a new report shows. The average tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to an analysis …
January 20, 2022
Two-thirds of executives say their companies are “very concerned” about climate change, and 79% believe the world is at “a climate change tipping point,” according to the recently released Deloitte 2022 CxO Sustainability Report. Deloitte polled more than 2,000 C-suite …
January 6, 2022
More than four-in-10 U.S. residents live in a county that was struck by climate-related extreme weather last year, while more than 80% experienced a heat wave, according to a new report. The Washington Post conducted an analysis of federal disaster …
December 16, 2021
The American Meteorological Society released a report this week detailing some of the extreme weather events made more likely by human-caused climate change in 2020. The report, Explaining Extreme Events in 2020 from a Climate Perspective, presents 18 peer-reviewed analyses …
December 2, 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week distributed the final draft of the Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report to governments, in one of the final stages of preparations before IPCC member countries consider this report …
November 18, 2021
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners released the report calling out measures to adapt to and deal with the risks posted by climate change. The report, Adapting to Emerging Risks: The State-Based Regulatory System is Focused on Climate and Resiliency, …
November 4, 2021
A new global partnership with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism will focus on the impact of climate change on terrorism. START, which is based at the University of Maryland, with the cooperation of …