El Niño Expected to Become One of Strongest on Record: UN’s Weather Agency November 17, 2015 By Tom Miles The El Niño weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the...
Climate Risk May Hit Equity Portfolios as Investor Sentiment Shifts: Study November 12, 2015 By Anna Hirtenstein Equity portfolios may lose as much as 45 percent of their value due to shifting investor sentiment about climate change,...
Global Temperature Rise on Track to Hit Half-Way Point of ‘Tolerable Threshold’ November 10, 2015 By Reed Landberg The world is on track to reach 1 degree Celsius of global warming this year since the industrial revolution, the...
VW Engineers Admit Rigging CO2 Emissions over Job Fears: Report November 9, 2015 Several Volkswagen engineers have admitted manipulating carbon dioxide emissions data because goals set by former Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn were...
Insurers Unprepared for Costs of Climate Change, Warns UN Climate Diplomat October 28, 2015 By Alex Morales Insurers are unprepared for the costs of climate change, the top United Nations climate diplomat said as world leaders make...
10 Oil & Gas Bosses Seek to Improve Image Before Climate Change Summit October 16, 2015 By Ron Bousso and Bate Felix Oil and gas industry bosses called for an “effective” agreement at the United Nations climate change summit in December, recognizing...
Bank of England Governor: Insurers Face Huge Exposure to Climate Change Risks September 30, 2015 By Scott Hamilton Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said UK insurers face potentially “huge” exposure to shifts in climate-change policy and Group...
Institutional Investors’ Fossil-Fuel Divestment Exceeds $2.6 Trillion September 23, 2015 By Christopher Martin Portfolio managers have pledged to steer $2.6 trillion in investments away from fossil fuels in an effort to prevent catastrophic...
Trying to Put a Price Tag on Volkswagen’s Emission-Fraud Scandal September 22, 2015 By Paul Barrett An $18 billion liability figure attached itself last Friday to Volkswagen’s diesel disaster. This morning comes news that the German...
Pacific Islanders Plead for Action on Climate Change as Sea Levels Rise September 21, 2015 By Alex Morales The village where Anote Tong attended school some 40 years ago is no longer there. As the Pacific Ocean encroached...