Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change Impact: 40% Chance of ‘100-Year Storms’ Over 20-Year Span
Oct 6 2021 // While events like Hurricane Ida and a Texas winter freeze demonstrate wide-reaching impacts of climate change to all but ardent deniers, even insurers and reinsurers may not fully appreciate all the risks, a new report...
Global Construction Industry Faces Climate Change Challenges, Opportunities: Marsh
Oct 1 2021 // 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 report published by...
Climate Change Ranks as Top Concern for Insurers, Replacing Pandemic
Sep 29 2021 // Climate change has returned to the top of the list of insurers’ biggest concerns as the vaccine roll-out and gradual lifting of health restrictions see pandemic fears ease in many countries. Global warming was ranked...
Global Reinsurers Could Be Greatly Underestimating Exposure to Climate Risk: S&P
Sep 24 2021 // Reinsurers’ estimates of their exposure to natural catastrophe risk could be underestimated by 33%-50%, according to a report published by S&P Global Ratings. “Unmodeled risks and the inherent difficulties...
Climate Change Could Force 200 Million People to Leave Their Homes by 2050
Sep 15 2021 // Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a...
What Smart People Get Wrong About Climate Change Extremes: Opinion
Sep 14 2021 // If anyone should be attuned to the real-world impacts of global warming, it’s the policy makers and business heads that have to deal with the fallout. But even the most well-intentioned can fail to grasp just how bad...
Climate Risk is Shaping Insurance – Here’s How
Sep 2 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. The New Paradigm of Climate-Conscious Insurance As climate change alters the atmosphere and increases the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes, insurers must...
Connecticut Insurance Department to Host Conference on Climate Change, Insurance
Aug 31 2021 // The Connecticut Insurance Department and U.S. experts on climate change, resiliency, mitigation and adaptation are leading a discussion on what the insurance industry should consider to mitigate and adapt. On October 13...
Report: More U.S. Residents Heading Toward Climate Change Dangers Than Away
Aug 26 2021 // It’s counterintuitive to run toward a fire, or any risk for that matter, but that mindest doesn’t seem to always hold. U.S. counties with the biggest proportions of homes facing high heat, drought, fire, flood...
Swiss Re Signs $10M Carbon Removal Purchase Agreement to Fight Climate Change
Aug 26 2021 // Swiss Re and carbon removal specialist Climeworks are partnering to combat climate change — by signing the world’s first long-term purchase agreement for direct air capture and storage of carbon dioxide, worth...
China’s Cities Aren’t Prepared for Extreme Weather Caused by Climate Change
Aug 25 2021 // Climate change is making China’s annual summer floods worse, and cities housing millions of people aren’t prepared to handle the damage. Record-breaking rainfall in the central province of Henan killed more...
Climate Change Exacerbated Germany’s Deadly Floods: Report
Aug 24 2021 // The heavy rains and floods that killed at least 220 people in Belgium and Germany this summer were made more likely and more intense by climate change. These are the conclusions of a rapid attribution report put together...
Connecticut Insurance Department Releases National Survey on Climate Risk
Aug 18 2021 // Connecticut is continuing to engage with the insurance industry on climate change and its implications with its latest release of a national survey on climate risk in the insurance industry. Previously one of six states...
Overheated, Underprotected: Climate Change Is Killing U.S. Farm Laborers
Aug 13 2021 // Florencio Gueta Vargas showed up for his usual shift at a hops farm in Toppenish, Washington, on Thursday, July 29. The father of six would never make it home. It was a sweltering day with temperatures topping 100 degrees...
Concerned Scientists Outline What U.S. Should Do to Deal with Climate Change
Aug 12 2021 // Six insurers have ruled out Arctic refuge drilling, according to a report out this week from the Gwich’in Steering Committee. The Gwich’in are the northernmost Indian Nation living in 15 villages scattered...
Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket Face Dire Climate Change Impact
Aug 11 2021 // The famous islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental report...
5 Key Takeaways From Latest United Nations Report on Climate Change
Aug 9 2021 // Today, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its latest comprehensive report on the state of global climate science—just the sixth in the body’s more than 30-year history. The...
DFS Issues New Report on Insurers’ Management of Climate Change Risks
Jul 30 2021 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued a report analyzing New York domestic insurers’ management of the financial risks from climate change based on their 2020 responses to the National...
Global Warming Could Kill 83 Million People by Turn of Next Century: Study
Jul 30 2021 // A population equivalent to that of Germany — 83 million people — could be killed by 2100 because of rising temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a new study that might influence how markets...
Lloyd’s Plans Insurance for Electric Vehicles, Hydrogen Fuel, in Climate Change Fight
Jul 29 2021 // Lloyd’s of London plans to develop insurance products for electric vehicles and hydrogen as part of its efforts to fight climate change, the specialist insurance market said on Thursday. Lloyd’s published a...
