Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Singapore Prepares for Worst of Climate Change with $72B Defense Plan
Feb 26 2020 // Singapore has a reputation for planning ahead. When it comes to climate change, it’s planning for the worst. While governments around the world are struggling to meet the goals of the Paris agreement — keeping the...
Vermont House Advances Climate Change Bill to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Feb 25 2020 // The Vermont House has given preliminary approval to legislation that sets requirements and deadlines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The so-called Global Warming Solutions Act was up for final approval...
Financial Services Firms Risk $1 Trillion in Losses from Climate Change: Report
Feb 24 2020 // The world’s financial services sector risks losses of up to $1 trillion if it fails to respond quickly to climate change and is hit by policy shifts such as the introduction of a carbon tax, a new report shows. The...
Australia Regulator Seeks to Understand Financial Risks of Climate Change
Feb 24 2020 // Australia’s prudential regulator said on Monday it was looking to better understand the financial risks of climate change and would begin undertaking deeper assessments of the industry’s vulnerabilities to...
How One County Plans to Vet Insurers for Fossil Fuel Investments
Feb 20 2020 // “We have front row seats,” said Elise Jones, a Boulder County commissioner. Jones along with two other commissioners oversees government affairs in the Colorado county of 330,000 or so at the base of the...
Global Warming Creating ‘Irreversible’ Ice Melt in Antarctica: Scientist
Feb 19 2020 // Global warming was leading to an “irreversible” mass melting of the Antarctic ice and purging carbon from the atmosphere was the only solution to slow the process, an Australian climate scientist told Reuters...
Australia’s Central Bank Chief Warns of Economic, Financial Effects of Climate Change
Feb 14 2020 // Australia’s central bank chief Philip Lowe warned of wide-ranging economic and financial impacts from climate change, after his drought-stricken nation suffered some of its worst wildfires ever. Speaking on a panel...
Outgoing BoE Governor Discusses Risks of Negative Interest Rates, Climate Change
Feb 13 2020 // Mark Carney said he’s lucky he never had to cut interest rates below zero as Bank of England governor because they would have damaged the UK. Carney, who leaves the central bank next month, has long been opposed to...
Report: Florida Will See Noticeable Climate Change Impacts in 20 Years
Feb 6 2020 // When scientists talk about climate change effects like sea level rise and extreme temperatures, they’re typically referring to things predicted to start noticeably occurring as soon as, say 2050, or into the next...
Most UK Insurers, Banks Unprepared for Risks of Climate Change
Jan 31 2020 // The Bank of England faces an uphill climb to get the finance industry ready for one of its biggest threats: the climate. About 80% of senior finance executives believe their firms “lack well-developed strategies to...
Oil Giant Total Sued by 14 French Cities, NGOs over Failure to Cut Carbon Emissions
Jan 28 2020 // Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming. The legal challenge is the...
Miami Aims To Be Carbon Neutral by 2050 Under ‘Climate Ready’ Plan
Jan 28 2020 // With sea level rise already lapping at its door, the city of Miami made its first significant commitment to address the root cause of climate change, not just the symptoms. The city government plans to go carbon neutral by...
Making Big Oil Pay for Climate Change May Be Impossible
Jan 24 2020 // Exxon Mobil dodged a bullet last month when a judge rejected a novel climate-change lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general. The case began with a promise from state officials that there would be a historic...
Florida Lawmakers Propose Task Force to Protect State from Sea-Level Rise
Jan 24 2020 // After years of mostly ignoring climate change, Florida lawmakers waded deeper into the matter on Tuesday, advancing a proposal that would create a statewide Office of Resiliency and establish a task force to begin looking...
Nukes, Cyber, Climate Change: World Now at 100 Seconds to Midnight
Jan 23 2020 // It’s 100 seconds to midnight. Nuclear war, cyber threats and climate change are putting the world in more danger than it has been in over at least the last 70-plus years. The hands of the Doomsday Clock are now...
Bushfire-Ravaged Australians Face Choice in Era of Climate Change: Rebuild or Leave?
Jan 23 2020 // It took two years for Nigel Allison to build his mud-brick house on a sleepy southeastern tip of Australia, and just hours for it to be gutted by fire. The cherished three-bedroom home built in 1986 was one of several...
Court Dashes Teens’ Hopes, Says Suit Can’t Force Climate Action by Government
Jan 20 2020 // Climate change should be addressed by Congress and the electorate, not the courts, a federal appeals panel ruled in ending a lawsuit brought on behalf of young people who sought to force the government to draw up a plan to...
World Economic Forum Sounds Alarms About Climate Change Risks
Jan 15 2020 // The World Economic Forum is sounding alarm bells on climate change, with environmental risks occupying the group’s top five long-term concerns for the first time on record. Extreme weather events, the failure of...
Climate Scientists Warn that Australia’s Bushfires Could Become the New Normal
Jan 14 2020 // Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves rapidly to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, scientists have...
New York Won’t Appeal Its Defeat in Exxon Climate Trial
Jan 13 2020 // New York won’t appeal a ruling by a judge who rejected the state’s claim that Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors for years about the oil giant’s internal planning for risks associated with climate...
