Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change Could Put 4% of Global GDP at Risk by 2050: S&P Study
Apr 27 2022 // Climate change could see 4% of global annual economic output lost by 2050 and hit many poorer parts of the world disproportionately hard, a new study of 135 countries has estimated. Ratings firm S&P Global, which gives...
Climate Change Exacerbates Extreme Weather in Europe: Report
Apr 25 2022 // Climate change produced another record-breaking year of extreme weather in Europe in 2021, triggering catastrophic flooding and the hottest summer on record, according to scientists at the Copernicus Climate Change...
Climate Change Could Cost U.S. Budget $2 Trillion a Year by End Century
Apr 18 2022 // Flood, fire, and drought fueled by climate change could take a massive bite out of the U.S. federal budget per year by the end of the century, the White House said in its first ever such assessment, released in early...
Climate Change Exacerbates Africa Cyclones: Study
Apr 14 2022 // Extreme rainfall in southeast Africa has become heavier and more likely to occur during cyclones because of climate change, according to a new analysis released Monday [April 11] by an international team of weather...
Update: Climate Change Protesters Disrupt Lloyd’s Headquarters
Apr 12 2022 // Climate change protesters in London have targeted insurance underwriting house Lloyd’s of London for its role in enabling fossil fuel projects. The City of London Police said they were aware of protests at...
Baltimore Gains State Court Edge It Sought in Climate Change Suit Against Big Oil
Apr 8 2022 // Big oil firms totally failed to make a federal case in their defense of a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for damages caused by climate change. The city of Baltimore won its fight to have its climate change...
Cities Drive Greenhouse Gas Emissions but Can Provide Solutions to Climate Change
Apr 6 2022 // The world’s cities are a big driver of planet-warming emissions but can play a major role in addressing climate change in the near future. U.N. scientists on Monday laid out ways to rein in emissions and curb climate...
Climate Change Could Cost U.S. Budget $2 Trillion a Year by End Century
Apr 4 2022 // Flood, fire, and drought fueled by climate change could take a massive bite out of the U.S. federal budget per year by the end of the century, the White House said in its first ever such assessment on Sunday. The Office of...
Lloyd’s Lab Selects 11 Insurtechs to Test Decarbonization, Climate Change Solutions
Mar 31 2022 // The Lloyd’s re/insurance marketplace announced the next 11 insurtech start-ups that will join the eighth cohort of the Lloyd’s Lab in its 10-week program. Lloyd’s Lab, the market’s innovation...
U.S. SEC Unveils Landmark Climate Change Risk Disclosure Rule
Mar 21 2022 // The U.S. securities regulator on Monday proposed requiring U.S.-listed companies to disclose a range of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions, part of President Joe Biden’s push to join global efforts to...
Moody’s ESG Notes ‘Death and Destruction’ from Climate Change
Mar 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...
Actuaries: Climate Change, WUI Building Led to Worsening Wildfires in U.S. and California
Mar 17 2022 // Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban interface, and while that notion may not be entirely new, the scope of the increase laid...
Exxon Mobil Loses Bid to Stop States’ Climate Change Probes
Mar 15 2022 // A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.’s effort to stop Massachusetts and New York from probing whether the oil company lied to investors and the public regarding what it knew about climate...
Climate Change Is Making Australia a More Difficult Place to Live: Prime Minister
Mar 9 2022 // Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded that a changing climate is making the country a more difficult place to live as he declared recent destructive flooding on the east coast a national...
Wall Street Regulator to Propose Climate Risk Rule As Early As March 16, Say Sources
Mar 8 2022 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to propose its landmark climate risk rule as early as Wednesday, March 16, said two people familiar with the agency’s planning. One of the people, who spoke...
UN Report Details Extent of Climate Change on Gulf Coast
Mar 7 2022 // Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Texas coast in 2017. Then in 2020, ferocious winds from Hurricane Laura destroyed homes across coastal Louisiana. Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, leaving the...
ANALYSIS-Who Pays? UN Climate Report Reignites Global Fight for Compensation
Mar 4 2022 // With this week’s U.N. climate science report laying bare the staggering economic costs and losses already faced from climate change, an inevitable question arises: who should pay? Within U.N. climate negotiations,...
Report: Nearly a Third of U.S. Hazardous Chemicals Facilities Exposed to Climate Change Dangers
Mar 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...
‘Delay Means Death’ – UN Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Rapidly Closing
Mar 1 2022 // Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to limit the suffering, the United Nations climate science panel warned in a major report on Monday. Noting that nearly half the...
EPA Power to Curb Carbon Emissions Questioned by Supreme Court
Mar 1 2022 // Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a case that could undermine...
