A radical climate strategy emerges: charge big oil firms with homicide
Oil companies have come under increasing legal scrutiny and face allegations of defrauding investors, racketeering, and a wave of other lawsuits. But a new paper argues there’s another way to hold big oil accountable for climate damage: trying companies for…
The IRA is changing what individual action means for climate change – The Washington Post
Almost 10 years ago, a solo researcher published a jaw-dropping statistic that changed how many people thought about climate change. Just 90 large companies, he determined, released almost two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions between 1751 and 2010. (Big players…
Study: World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10-12 years – Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that’s…
Airlines can price climate change into your plane ticket. There are reasons to not buy it – CNBC
Andia | Universal Images Group | Getty Images If you are upset that legroom on airplanes is shrinking, you may be relieved to hear that your footprint may be next. Your carbon footprint. Airplane passengers are now given the option…
Rising cost of climate change will challenge countries and companies in 2023 – Reuters
Dec 14 (Reuters) – In a year marked by yet more climate-linked floods, hurricanes and droughts, governments and companies were forced to look more closely at the financial risks and their exposure to liability. Nowhere was this more apparent than…
Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ – InsideClimate News
Photography by Larry C. Price This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. TORICHA, Kenya—If there’s a ring around the sun, it will rain. If the gude bird sings in descending notes, the skies will open. If vultures…
Over 60% of Indian firms can identify, manage climate-related market risks, finds study
Climate risk to businesses discussed by 82% per cent of company boards, but many lack tools to handle
Lauren R. Stevens: Slow but steady progress on global solutions to climate change – Berkshire Eagle
Not the World Cup, exactly. Nearly 200 nations gathered in Egypt Nov. 7 through 18 — actually they stayed longer — to try to save the world. Did they succeed? The 27th Conference of the Parties who signed the 1992…
Enhancement of river flooding due to global warming | Scientific Reports – Nature.com
Extreme weather events (e.g., heavy precipitation and flooding) can have devastating effects on human society and the environment. Heavy precipitation events, a major contributor to flooding, have increased in recent years, especially in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, due…
COP27 was a mirage in the deserts of the Sinai
COP27 was a grand spectacle; it created a sense of hyper-action, when it actually was about reversing the little gains made till now to combat this existential threat
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