Oil Giant Total Sued by 14 French Cities, NGOs over Failure to Cut Carbon Emissions January 28, 2020 By Francois de Beaupuy Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for...
Energy-Hungry Data Storage Is Another Culprit of Greenhouse Gas Emissions January 27, 2020 By Emily Chasan Everyone has seen the warning. At the bottom of the email, it says: “Please consider the environment before printing.” But...
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...
Nukes, Cyber, Climate Change: World Now at 100 Seconds to Midnight January 23, 2020 By Don Jergler It’s 100 seconds to midnight. Nuclear war, cyber threats and climate change are putting the world in more danger than...
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...
Natural Disasters in Past Decade Broke Records for Economic, Insured Losses: Aon January 22, 2020 The past decade broke new records in terms of economic damages and insured losses, according to Aon’s latest catastrophe report....
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...
Financial Services CEOs in Davos Complain They Can’t Save Planet Without Clients’ Help January 21, 2020 By Viren Vaghela As the financial industry comes under pressure to avoid funding dirty energy, the heads of Citigroup Inc. and Zurich Insurance...
Japan Firms Have Done Little to Build Resilience Against Increasing Floods: Reuters Poll January 17, 2020 By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Izumi Nakagawa Japanese companies have contingency plans for the floods that increasingly drench this island nation, but most have done little to...