Shell Settles Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Over Activists Boarding Oil Vessel December 11, 2024 British oil and gas major Shell on Tuesday settled a London lawsuit it brought against environmental group Greenpeace after activists...
Insurers’ Climate Losses Almost Match Premiums From Fossil Fuels December 10, 2024 By Gautam Naik Top insurance companies suffered $10.6 billion of climate-attributed losses this year, just shy of the $11.3 billion of direct premiums...
Global Temperature Set to Surpass 1.5C Threshold in Hottest Year on Record December 9, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard This year is “effectively certain” to be the warmest on record with temperatures climbing above a closely watched threshold for...
Investors With $9.5 Trillion Seek Mandatory Scope 3 Emissions Disclosures December 5, 2024 By Alastair Marsh An influential coalition of pension funds and insurance companies holding a combined $9.5 trillion of assets called on regulators to...
Italy to Require Companies Buy Insurance for Climate Risks December 3, 2024 By Gautam Naik Starting Jan. 1, every company in Italy must buy insurance to protect its assets from floods, landslides and other natural...
International Court Begins Hearings That May Shape Global Climate Litigation December 2, 2024 By Stephanie van den Berg The United Nations’ top court [this] week begins hearings on the legal obligation of countries to fight climate change and...
Contentious COP29 Deal Shows Climate Cooperation Fraying at Edges November 25, 2024 By Valerie Volcovici, Richard Valdmanis and Karin Strohecker When COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev stepped to the podium at the closing meeting of the Baku climate summit on Sunday...
What Is the Latest Science on Climate Change? November 14, 2024 By Gloria Dickie This year’s U.N. climate summit – COP29 – is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures,...
Global CO2 Emissions to Hit Record High in 2024, Report Says November 13, 2024 By Kate Abnett Global carbon dioxide emissions, including those from burning fossil fuels, are set to hit a record high this year, pulling...
Global Warming Is Already on the Cusp of 1.5C, New Research Finds November 12, 2024 By Eric Roston A newly proposed method for calculating the global temperature suggests that countries may have already failed their main climate goal:...