Wall Street Regulator to Propose Climate Risk Rule As Early As March 16, Say Sources March 8, 2022 By Katanga Johnson and Jarrett Renshaw The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to propose its landmark climate risk rule as early as Wednesday, March...
Judge Blocks Biden Order on Calculating Climate Risks in Government Decisions February 14, 2022 By Nichola Groom A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of...
Corporate Climate Targets to Have Limited Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Report February 10, 2022 Some of the world’s biggest companies have made climate targets that will have only a limited impact on their actual...
Net-Zero Insurers’ Climate-Friendly Plans to Exit Coal Impeded by Antitrust Laws January 19, 2022 By Alastair Marsh A group of the world’s biggest insurers and reinsurers jointly pledging to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from their underwriting activities...
Container Shipping Giant Maersk Speeds Up Decarbonization Target by a Decade January 14, 2022 COPENHAGEN – Container shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk now plans to achieve net zero emissions in its business by 2040, a...
Climate Activists Behind Landmark Shell Verdict Set Sights on 30 Multinationals January 13, 2022 By Anthony Deutsch and Simon Jessop The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court case against Royal Dutch Shell...
U.S. Confronted With Deadly Billion Dollar Disasters as Carbon Emissions Soar January 12, 2022 By Seth Borenstein The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021,...
Global Shipping Industry Faces Growing Pressure to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions December 28, 2021 By Jonathan Saul Ocean freight costs are likely to remain high in 2022 as investors and regulators scramble to accelerate decarbonization of the...
Australia’s Adani Coal Mine Nears 1st Shipment, Despite Climate Activists’ Campaign December 27, 2021 By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE – India’s Adani Group is preparing to ship the first coal cargo from Australia’s most controversial mine, after battling...
Leading Marine Re/Insurers Join Push to Decarbonize Global Shipping December 15, 2021 Leading companies in the marine insurance industry have joined an initiative linking their underwriting activities with the cutting of carbon...