Tag: climate change
U.K. Banks, Insurers to Face Stress Tests on How They Would...
U.K. banks and insurers will have to show how they plan to respond to the harmful effects of climate change under new...
Germany’s First Green Bonds Seen Spurring Spending in Debt-Averse Nation
Germany’s bonds are going green.
The debt-averse country will issue its first green bonds -- debt that finances environmental...
Harvard Professor’s Plan to Suck CO2 From the Air Gaining Steam...
A long-derided idea -- find a way to affordably suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and fight climate change -- is...
Palm Oil Faces Uphill Battle on Sustainability as Orangutans Fall Victim...
The palm oil industry has a sustainability problem which can be summed up in one word: orangutans.
Production of...
Madrid Climate Talks End With Whimper, as Countries Negotiate Non-Binding Statement
This year’s United Nations climate talks ended with a weak statement calling for greater efforts to tackle greenhouse emissions, a result that...
Madrid Climate Talks Highlight U.S. Divisions, Where States Take Lead While...
U.S. differences in efforts to combat greenhouse gasses were on display at a global climate gathering in Madrid, highlighting difficulties in reaching...
Brazil Becoming Toxic For Investors as Policies, Amazon Fires Raise Risks
Fires that raged in the Amazonian rainforest this year are doing more than destroying habitats and melting glaciers: they’re causing investors and...
As Coal Use Declines, Increases in Global Emissions Rate Slows, Study...
Carbon dioxide emissions around the world are rising less than last year, thanks to the developed world’s shift away from coal and...
Amazon Fires Aren’t Just Adding Greenhouse Gas Emissions, They’re Shrinking Glaciers...
The fires that spread across the Amazon this year are claiming another victim beyond the millions of acres they burned: Andean glaciers,...
Risk Management Takes New Sense of Urgency as Climate-Driven Disasters Boost...
The number of natural disasters has been increasing for decades, but lately, driven by climate change, managing that risk has become a...
U.S. Government Watchdog Calls on EPA to Protect America’s Most Polluted...
While the private sector is mobilizing to invest more in recycling and in updating the waste management system in the U.S., it’s...
Climate Inaction Means Children Born Today Will Face Severe Health Risks,...
There’s no question that global warming is already affecting global health. As natural disasters displace millions of people, higher average temperatures encourage...
Google Looks For Social Impact, Climate Change Startups With Accelerator Launch
Google, the company with a founding principal of “don’t be evil,” is seeking startups in Europe and Africa focused on climate change...
Boiling Frogs and Smokestack Emissions: EU Experts Warn Corporations to Report...
When climate experts start with the boiling frog comparisons, the news isn’t going to be good.
Such was the...
Dire Warning: Investments Ignoring Changing Climate Can “Go to Zero Quickly,”...
Climate change is a risk not only to the planet -- it also threatens to blow up portfolios.
That’s...
Former Exxon CEO Tillerson Denies Charges the Company Lied to Investors...
Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil’s former CEO and a one-time U.S. secretary of state, told a New York City courtroom that his former...
Exxon Former Scientists Tell Congress Company Ignored Climate-Change Evidence as N.Y....
As ExxonMobil Corp.’s trial for misleading investors about climate-change risks unfolds in New York, two former scientists in Washington D.C. told a...
Norway’s Dilemma: How Does This Green Nation Wean Itself From its...
Key Takeaway: Pristine, green and progressive, Norway keeps its air clean thanks...
Green Investing’s Moment? Demand Surges for Clean Energy Ventures’ Fund
Green investments, at times shunned and misunderstood by mainstream investors, may be having their moment in the sun.
In...
Europe’s Development Bank Punts Fossil Fuel Choice Amid Wider Climate vs....
The European Union wants to lead the world in fighting climate change, but its massive and influential investment bank, which funds energy...
World’s Biggest Banks Slowly Embracing Climate Initiative Championed by Carney, Bloomberg
Wells Fargo, Commerzbank and UniCredit are among the world’s biggest banks yet to sign on to a climate change initiative championed by...
At the UN, Cities See Themselves in Vanguard of Solving Climate...
Key Takeaway: Science for 1.5C Cities, a side-event held in UN’s basement...
Clean Air Fund Launched With $50 Million at U.N. Summit, Highlighting...
A handful of European philanthropies have banded together to create the Clean Air Fund to support projects combatting air pollution, and to...
Amazon Employees Join Global Climate Strike, Call for Zero Emissions by...
Key Takeaway: Amazon Employees for Climate Justice will strike today at the company’s Seattle headquarters to...
Bill Gates Dismisses Fossil Fuel Divestments in Favor of Green Investments
Billionaire Bill Gates has taken a side in the polarized issue of whether to dump fossil fuel stocks to effect climate change...
Logging as Carbon-Neutral? Not so Much, Says Study on North Carolina’s...
The timber industry, long associated with a range of environmental problems from removing oxygen-producing trees to ruining habitats, probably doesn’t rank high...
Australian Doctors Call Climate Change “Irreversible” Health Crisis
Climate change has become an “irreversible” health crisis in Australia with dire consequences for the Asia-Pacific nation, including an increase in potentially...
Meat, Dairy Producers Ignore Climate Change Despite Effects On Profits
The $1.5 trillion global meat and dairy industries are taking little responsibility for their roles in climate change even as increased droughts,...
Acai, Snake Venom, Cocoa: Amazon Survival, Post-Inferno, May Hinge on Sustainable...
Amazon’s fires may be calming down, but the battle for the future of the world’s biggest tropical rainforest is far from over.
California Clean Energy Job Growth Soars, Outpacing Gains in Fossil Fuel...
More than half a million Californians are working in clean energy industries, outnumbering jobs in the fossil fuel industry by almost five...
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