Republished from NYTIMES.com By Mike Ives HONG KONG — You might call it a Noah’s Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets. An audacious plan to respond to climate change by building a city of floating islands in the South Pacific is moving forward, with the government of...
Republished from USAToday.com By Anne-Marcelle Ngabirano Bill Gates warned against denying climate change and pushed for more innovation in clean energy, during an event Friday at Columbia University in New York. The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder joined friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett for a question-and-answer session with students. “Certain topics are so complicated...
Republished from NYTimes.com By John Schwartz A group of Republican elder statesmen is calling for a tax on carbon emissions to fight climate change. The group, led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, with former Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Henry M. Paulson Jr.,...
Republished from Huffingtonpost.com By Jeremy Deaton Last week, wildfires swept through Chile, fueled by hot, windy weather. The blazes claimed 11 lives, razed 1,500 homes and burned down an area of forest roughly the size of Maui. Flames filled the sky with soot and ash and rendered once-vibrant towns...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Investors are beginning to analyse their portfolios for climate change risk and carbon content as the issues rise up the investment agenda. What are their strategies for confronting the problem? In September last year Bank of England governor Mark Carney caused a...
Republished from boardagenda.com David Cooke Campaign group ClientEarth has made formal complaints against two energy companies, claiming they failed to properly address climate risk in their annual reports. David Cooke, a lawyer with ClientEarth, explains why. Pressure is building on carbon-intensive companies to disclose their climate-related risks...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Recommendations from the FSB Task Force calls on companies to disclose the effect of climate change on business strategy as well as describing boards’ oversight of climate risk. The task force charged with defining new corporate disclosures related to climate change has released...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Academics insist business leaders need to take the Paris climate change agreement seriously or increase the risks to their business models. Businesses that fail to understand that policy makers were serious about cuts to carbon usage at the Paris COP 21 meeting...
Republished from linkedin.com By Janet Napolitano The science is indisputable: Our climate is changing, the planet is warming and sea levels are rising. Weather patterns are shifting, at times exacting a punishing toll on communities. More and more, taxpayers are footing the bill for the havoc wreaked...
Republished from bloomberg.com By Jess Shankleman Efforts to slow climate change won’t just keep the planet habitable. They will also boost the world economy by $19 trillion. Investments in renewable power and energy efficiency will add about 0.8 percent to global gross domestic product by 2050, the International Renewable...