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Insurance Industry Increasingly Concerned about Climate Risks
Major insurance carrier AXA has been surveying risk professionals for five years on their key emerging risks. Climate change has always ranked high. But this year’s survey produced a stunning result: of the 1,235 risk professionals, including 1,060 AXA employees all over the globe, the percentage of respondents pointing to climate change as their key concern rocketed up […]
Civilization 6: Gathering Storm Video Game Teaches Climate Science
Your civ is thriving, but your planet is dying. Do something! Read the entire article at PC Gamer. Civilization 6 will get eight new Civilizations and nine new Leaders in the upcoming Gathering Storm expansion, along with some big changes to its core systems and a major late-game challenge to deal with in the […]
Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change
In the next decade or so, more than 6,000 cities, states, and provinces around the world will try to do something that has eluded humanity for 25 years: reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, which warm the atmosphere and cause climate change. Read the entire article at The Atlantic. So where will they start? […]
Receding Glacier Uncovers a Landscape Unseen in Over 40,000 Years
Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven’t been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years, new University of Colorado Boulder research finds. Read the entire article at Phys.Org. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, uses radiocarbon […]
Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency
Ever since human-caused climate change emerged into public consciousness around the late 1980s, news stories and public awareness campaigns surrounding the topic have predominantly been accompanied by images of polar bears and melting ice, reinforcing common misconceptions that the impacts are far away in space and time and removed from our daily lives. Read […]
Corporations Assess Risks / Opportunities in the Age of Climate Change
Bank of America worries flooded homeowners will default on their mortgages. Disney is concerned its theme parks will get too hot for vacationers. AT&T fears hurricanes and wildfires may knock out its cell towers. Coca-Cola wonders if there will still be enough water to make Coke. Read the entire article at Bloomberg. As the […]
Measuring What Matters: Verifiable Forest Monitoring
The health of forests, people and our planet are intrinsically linked. Functioning as lungs of the earth, forests supply vital oxygen and enhance air quality. Forests also provide ecological functions such as wildlife habitat, nutrient cycling, and flood control and other environmental services. Read the entire article at Medium Upstream. On a global level, […]
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Block Exxon Climate Fraud Investigation
Massachusetts’ Attorney General is trying to force Exxon to turn over decades of records involving what it knew about climate change and what it told the public. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up ExxonMobil’s latest attempt to block Massachusetts’ investigation into whether the oil giant misled the public and investors about climate change. […]
Investment Funds Urge Action on Climate Change
A global group of 415 investors managing $32 trillion in assets just released a combined statement urging governments to accelerate their actions to mitigate climate change. Read the entire article at Forbes. The group warns that ignoring action against climate change could cause permanent economic damage up to four times the size of the […]
The City Within a Garden
Some cities are restoring nature and tapping the power of ecosystems to enhance and protect urban life. Cities such as Melbourne, Portland, Oslo, San Francisco and Singapore are embracing a far-reaching shift in their mental models about the city’s relationship to nature. Read the entire article at NextCity. In modern times, the city has […]
