Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
COP26 Climate Agreement Targets Fossil Fuels as Key Driver of Global Warming
Nov 15 2021 // GLASGOW – U.N. climate talks ended Saturday with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries lobbed last-minute objections. While the agreement...
Risky Business: Climate Change Turns Up Heat on Insurers, Policyholders
Nov 12 2021 // Tony and Jhan Dunn never thought they would leave California, where they grew up, built a life together and planned to retire. But after a wildfire swept through their Northern California town of Paradise three years ago,...
Business Execs Optimistic COP26 Will Bring Changes Needed to Tackle Climate Change
Nov 8 2021 // A week into the United Nations’ high-profile climate conference in Glasgow, executives and financial analysts said they are optimistic the talks will lead to changes needed for business to play a bigger role in...
Louisiana Governor Addresses Climate Change Challenges at COP26
Nov 8 2021 // With his trip to an international climate change conference, Gov. John Bel Edwards acknowledged Louisiana’s obvious front-row seat to the problems of a warming planet while raising his profile on an issue few of the...
Reports from U.S.-based Group Will Examine Impacts of Climate Change on Terrorism
Nov 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...
Insurance Regulators: Mitigation, Solvency Are Keys to Surviving Climate Change
Nov 4 2021 // The United States will not be able to insure its way out of coming climate disasters, but must focus on mitigation and resiliency – along with insurer solvency — to reduce risk and exposure, insurance regulators...
New York DFS Announces New Climate Change Division, Appoints Dr. Chen to Lead
Nov 3 2021 // In its latest move to address the effects of climate change, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced a new climate risk division and appointed Dr. Nina Chen as its executive deputy superintendent. Dr....
Bank of England to Push Banks, Insurers on Climate Risk Capital Requirements
Oct 29 2021 // The Bank of England will crack down from next year on banks and insurers that do not hold enough capital to cover risks from climate change, while also considering bespoke safety buffers. Climate-related financial risks...
What Are the Economic Stakes of Climate Change?
Oct 25 2021 // COP26 climate talks in Glasgow starting next Sunday may be the world’s best last chance to cap global warming at the 1.5-2 degrees Celsius upper limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The stakes for the planet...
Climate Change Makes Drought Recovery Tougher in Western U.S.
Oct 22 2021 // Californians rejoiced this week when big drops of water started falling from the sky for the first time in any measurable way since the spring, an annual soaking that heralds the start of the rainy season following some of...
Worsening Off-Season Floods in Venice Trigger Fears About Climate Change Impact
Oct 22 2021 // VENICE, Italy (AP) – After Venice suffered the second-worst flood in its history in November 2019, it was inundated with four more exceptional tides within six weeks, shocking Venetians and triggering fears about the...
Top Regulators’ Roadmap Addresses Climate Change as Threat to U.S. Financial Stability
Oct 22 2021 // Climate change is an “emerging threat” to U.S. financial stability that regulators should address in their everyday work, a top U.S. regulatory panel said on Thursday, a first for the United States which has...
New Zealand Is 1st Country to Pass Climate Change Disclosure Laws for Insurers, Banks
Oct 21 2021 // New Zealand has become the first country to pass laws requiring banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, officials said on Thursday. About 200 of the largest...
Federal Government Seeks Insurance Industry Input on Climate Change
Oct 18 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. With flooding from hurricane Ida in the east and fires raging on the west coast as a backdrop, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a solicitation for input from the...
Global Construction Industry Faces Climate Change Challenges, Opportunities: Marsh
Oct 18 2021 // By L.S. Howard Climate change and the race to net zero greenhouse gas emissions (net zero) are arguably the greatest challenges that face the construction industry — but will drive new opportunities, according to a...
Corporate Climate Risk Disclosures Still Falling Short, Regulators Say
Oct 15 2021 // Around half of companies assessed have begun to apply globally agreed climate-related disclosure standards for helping investors to pick firms committed to sustainability, regulators said on Thursday. A task force set up...
New Jersey Releases Final Climate Change Resiliency Strategy
Oct 14 2021 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Interagency Council on Climate Resilience released the final version of the state’s first Climate Change Resiliency Strategy, a science-based blueprint for protecting New...
Biden Administration Wants Federal Contracts to Reflect Climate Risk
Oct 14 2021 // The Biden administration on Thursday began a process to amend federal procurement rules to require the U.S. government – the world’s largest buyer of goods and services – to factor the risks of climate...
Vulnerable to Climate Change, England Must ‘Adapt or Die’, Agency Warns
Oct 14 2021 // England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, a governmental agency said Wednesday. In...
Climate Swat Team Aims to Identify When Global Warming Causes Extreme Weather
Oct 11 2021 // When weather disaster strikes, observers near and far ask the same question: Climate change—is it or isn’t it? The simplest answer, yes, lacks specificity. All weather is a joint human-nature venture, because...
