Australia Faces Worsening Bushfires Without Climate Change Action: Report March 11, 2020 By Rob Verdonck Australia risks worse wildfires than this season’s record-breaking blazes unless it reduces emissions and phases out fossil-fuel exports, climate scientists...
Climate Change Heightens Risk of Fierce Australia Wildfires: Study March 5, 2020 By David Stringer Climate change is adding to the risk of fierce wildfires in Australia, according to a scientific study of this season’s...
Australia Regulator Seeks to Understand Financial Risks of Climate Change February 24, 2020 By Swati Pandey Australia’s prudential regulator said on Monday it was looking to better understand the financial risks of climate change and would...
Australia’s Capital, Canberra, Faces Worst Bushfire Threat in 17 Years January 29, 2020 By Jason Scott Canberra, Australia’s capital that’s surrounded by bush, is facing its worst wildfire threat in 17 years as a blaze sparked...
Australian Insurers Should Be Able to Withstand Mounting Bushfire Claims: AM Best January 27, 2020 Australian insurers are well-capitalized and should be able to withstand losses from the 2019/2020 bushfire season, aided by strong capital...
As Insurers Pull Back from Australia’s Bushfire Zones, They Could Become Uninhabitable January 24, 2020 By Matthew Burgess Australian wildfires that have razed thousands of homes and blackened an area about the size of England may also create...
Bushfire-Ravaged Australians Face Choice in Era of Climate Change: Rebuild or Leave? January 23, 2020 By Sybilla Gross and Emily Cadman It took two years for Nigel Allison to build his mud-brick house on a sleepy southeastern tip of Australia, and...
Australia Begins Clean Up From Bushfires with Insurance Claims Continuing to Rise January 21, 2020 By Rebecca Jones The New South Wales and Victorian state governments will coordinate the clean-up of insured and uninsured residential and commercial properties...
Severe Storms Expected to Bring Relief, New Risks to Bushfire-Stricken Australia January 15, 2020 By Lidia Kelly Severe storms are expected to bring some relief in the coming days from huge bushfires scorching Australia but the heavy...
Climate Scientists Warn that Australia’s Bushfires Could Become the New Normal January 14, 2020 By Matthew Green Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves...