Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Swiss Financial Watchdog Requires Insurers, Banks to Disclose Climate Change Risks
Jun 1 2021 // ZURICH – Large Swiss banks and insurance companies will have to provide qualitative and quantitative information about risks they face from climate change, Swiss financial watchdog FINMA said on Monday as it released an...
Rising Global Temperatures Move Closer to Climate Change Tipping Point: U.N. Report
May 27 2021 // There is now a 40% chance that global temperatures will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years — and these odds are rising, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. a U.N....
To Protect a Community from Climate Change, New York is Elevating a Park
May 25 2021 // Superstorm Sandy flooded lower Manhattan in 2012 with nearly 5 feet (1.5 m) of water, swamping the city’s subway and destroying homes and businesses. The storm and its aftermath were a wake-up call that New York City...
Impending Dutch Court Decision to Test Shell’s Responsibility for Climate Change
May 25 2021 // A Dutch court verdict against Royal Dutch Shell Plc will determine whether it has a legal responsibility for climate change, in a case that will be watched by Big Oil executives globally. A panel of judges in a lower court...
Canada Faces Mega-Hurricanes if Climate Change Pushes Storms North: Swiss Re Warns
May 21 2021 // Climate change is making hurricanes bigger and stronger, and it may soon push them farther north. Yet Canada’s homeowners, businesses and insurers underestimate that escalating risk, according to one of the...
Biden Executive Order Initiates Broad Strategy to Assess, Mitigate Climate Change Risks
May 21 2021 // President Joe Biden on Thursday directed federal agencies to assess and mitigate the increasing and serious risks that climate change poses to individuals, businesses, the federal government and the U.S. financial system,...
Report: $8.1B of Sandy’s Damages Attributable to Climate Change
May 20 2021 // Roughly $8.1B of Superstorm Sandy’s damages in 2012 are attributable to “climate-mediated anthropogenic sea level rise,” a report out this week shows. The report published on Tuesday in the journal Nature...
Climate Change Caused $8 Billion of Hurricane Sandy’s Economic Losses: Study
May 20 2021 // When Hurricane Sandy barreled over New York City and the East Coast in 2012, it caused $63 billion in damage, making it one of the costliest storms in U.S. history. Now, scientists have estimated that climate change pushed...
Warming Arctic Permafrost Will Make It Harder to Curb Climate Change: Study
May 18 2021 // The warming Arctic tundra will make it harder for the world to curb climate change, as thawing permafrost and wildfires release greenhouse gases that are not fully accounted for in global emissions agreements, a study said...
Biden EPA Relaunches Website With Climate Change Indicators
May 14 2021 // After years of delays during the Trump administration, the EPA released its new climate indicators, which show Americans are already feeling effects on their health and safety. Heat waves across the country are more...
RMS Global Catastrophe Model Leader Launches First Climate Change Models, Enabling New Risk Insights
May 6 2021 // New Climate Change Models Show Impact of Climate Change on Losses; Losses from Hurricanes Could Increase by 24 percent by 2050 Newark, Calif., May 5, 2021 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling and...
French Regulator Urges Insurers, Banks to Speed Climate Change Response
May 5 2021 // French banks and insurers should speed up their response to climate change, France’s banking regulator said on Tuesday, after publishing what it called the world’s first climate-related stress test of...
New Jersey to Bake Climate Change Risk Into Policies, Share Costs
Apr 27 2021 // New Jersey will incorporate the impacts of climate change and rising seas into all its major policy decisions in the near future, and will seek to share the costs of protecting the state among all levels of government and...
Climate Change Activists Protest at Lloyd’s of London, Dumping a Load of ‘Coal’
Apr 23 2021 // Lloyd’s of London was the focus of climate change activists on Friday, when a group called “Insurance Rebellion” used a dump truck to deposit a large pile of fake coal in front of the Lloyd’s...
Climate Change Could Cut Global GDP by 18% by 2050 – If Nothing Is Done: Swiss Re
Apr 22 2021 // If nothing is done to combat climate change, global temperatures could rise by 3.2°C within the next 30 years, shrinking the world economy by 18%, according to new research from Swiss Re, which was rolled out on Earth...
Kenya Startup Pula Offers Insurance to African Farmers Hit by Effects of Climate Change
Apr 20 2021 // KITUI, Kenya – When Kenyan farmer Waki Munyalo’s crop of lentils shrank by three quarters last year because of unusually low rainfall, disaster was averted thanks to a simple remedy that was previously unavailable...
Russia Vulnerable to Climate Change, Causing Expensive Natural Disasters
Apr 14 2021 // The residents of Irkutsk, one of Russia’s coldest regions, are used to harsh winters. But when the temperature dropped to negative 60 degrees Celsius (-76 Fahrenheit) last January, even they had to submit to the...
New Zealand Becomes 1st Country to Introduce Climate Change Law for Insurers, Banks
Apr 13 2021 // New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, minister for climate change James Shaw said...
Rhode Island Governor Signs Climate Change Bill Into Law
Apr 12 2021 // A wide-ranging climate bill that requires Rhode Island to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was signed into law Saturday by Governor Daniel McKee. “With four hundred miles of coastline, urban and rural...
Hawaii Study Offers Steps to Battle Climate Change
Apr 12 2021 // A new study from the University of Hawaii’s School of Architecture has offered detailed short- and long-term design alterations that could help the state combat the effects of climate change. Scientists have warned...
