Multiple Climate Disasters Trigger First-Ever Red Cross Disaster Insurance Pay-Out November 8, 2024 By Emma Farge The world was hit by so many floods and landslides in 2024 that it triggered the aid sector’s first multi-disaster...
How Three European Human Rights Cases Could Shape Climate Litigation April 8, 2024 By Gloria Dickie and Emma Farge Does government inaction on climate change violate human rights? That is the question the European Court of Human Rights will...
Robots Say They Won’t Steal Jobs, Rebel Against Humans July 10, 2023 By Emma Farge Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems,...
Alpine Glaciers Decline at Record Rates Following Heatwaves July 26, 2022 By Emma Farge and Gloria Dickie MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland – From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess...
Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit Record in 2021 as World Fails to Cap Rising Temperatures October 25, 2021 By Emma Farge and Gerry Mey GENEVA/GLASGOW – Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” on capping rising...
Arctic Temperatures Soar to Record Levels in June, Stoking Wildfires: EU Data July 7, 2020 By Emma Farge and Vladimir Soldatkin GENEVA/MOSCOW – Temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared to a record average for June amid a heat wave that is stoking...
Climate Change Litigants Argue Human Rights, Consumer Harm in Suing Oil Firms July 6, 2020 By Matthew Green, Valerie Volcovici and Emma Farge LONDON/WASHINGTON/GENEVA — Climate change may be having its day in court. With the slow pace of international climate negotiations, lawyers...
EU Decision to Put Bermuda on List of Global Tax Havens ‘a Setback’: Premier Burt March 13, 2019 By Emma Farge Bermuda’s Premier David Burt on Tuesday called the European Union’s decision to put the British overseas territory on a list...
BP Gulf Oil Disaster Legacy Includes Higher Risk, Insurance Costs October 12, 2010 By David Turner and Emma Farge The Gulf of Mexico oil spill will push up costs and reduce the number of offshore oil and gas operators...