How Much Carbon Damage Would Cost Corporations If They Paid For Emissions September 1, 2023 By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer The world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they...
Ships Get Older and Slower as Emissions Rules Bite July 11, 2022 By Sarah McFarlane LONDON —If shipping is the beating heart of global trade, its pulse is about to get slower. Faced with uncertainty...
Environmentalists Who Won Court Case Warn Shell Board on Liability for Emission Targets May 5, 2022 By Toby Sterling A group that won a victory over energy major Shell last year with a Dutch court order to deepen greenhouse...
Australia Floods Leave $1 Billion in Damage as Thousands Flee March 9, 2022 By Ben Westcott and Sybilla Gross Tens of thousands of residents from Sydney and Brisbane and nearby regional areas have been forced to flee their homes...
Insurance industry Joins Push to Decarbonize Global Shipping December 16, 2021 LONDON– Leading companies in the marine insurance industry have joined an initiative linking their underwriting activities with the cutting of...
CEZ Finds Alternative as Insurers Pull Cover From Coal Plants June 18, 2021 PRAGUE — Czech utility CEZ said on Friday it had found alternative insurance for its coal-fired power plants after two...
Gone Fission: Controversial Nuke Plant Near New York City Shuts Down April 30, 2021 By Michael Hill BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — Indian Point will permanently stop producing nuclear power Friday, capping a decades-long battle over a key...
Climate Battles are Moving into the Courtroom, and Lawyers are Getting Creative July 6, 2020 By Matthew Green, Valerie Volcovici and Emma Farge LONDON/WASHINGTON/GENEVA — Climate change may be having its day in court. With the slow pace of international climate negotiations, lawyers...
China Wildfire Provokes Public Anger as 19 Emergency Workers Die April 3, 2020 Eighteen firefighters and a forest guide died this week battling a wildfire in southwest China that has spread over more...
Australian Wildfires Fan Argument Over Impact of Arsonists February 3, 2020 By Rod Mcguirk CANBERRA, Australia — What’s to blame for scores of wildfires devastating Australia’s southeast? There’s an increasingly bitter face-off between those...