Opinion: Government must come clean about the total costs of climate change
The March 18 front-page article “Regulators push Wall Street for disclosure on climate risks” noted that government statistics found 22 extreme weather events last year cost the nation nearly $100...
Biden administration wants the financial sector to face up to climate risk
A growing number of federal regulators are pushing corporate America to reckon with the cost of climate change, arguing that global warming poses significant peril...
Bitcoin’s Climate Problem
“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing.” That was what Bill...
Large variation in daily temperatures linked to lower economic growth
Economic growth is lower in regions that experience bigger swings in day-to-day temperatures, revealing a potential new cost of climate change that boosts the case...
General Motors to stop making diesel and gas vehicles by 2035
General Motors (GM) has announced that it plans to end production of all diesel and gasoline powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2035.
A surge in green financing boosts climate businesses
From a dorm room at Stanford University, two business school students designed a system of solar panels for the roof of a boarding school in...
Study: Accounting for value of nature reinforces Paris climate targets
A new study in Nature Sustainability incorporates the damages that climate change does to healthy ecosystems into standard climate-economics models. The key finding in the...
Microsoft Pledges To Remove From The Atmosphere All The Carbon It Has Ever Emitted
By 2050, the tech giant pledges it will "remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption...