Climate Change

Sir David Attenborough has warned climate change could ‘destroy entire cities’ and ‘alter the stability of the entire world’ unless drastic action is taken right now. The naturalist and broadcaster, 94, said that changes to the Earth’s temperature have ‘already reached the point that the impact on the poorest and…

In 2006, on the front page of national daily newspaper, Nila Madhab Panda saw a frightening picture of a lone hand pump sticking out of the sea. It was surprising as a hand pump is generally located in the middle of a village which is used to pump groundwater. The…

The film is about the disappearing villages of India's eastern coastline in Odisha because of climate change and rising sea levels Edited By Aishwarya Vasudevan Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 03:20 PM IST Director Nila Madhab Panda has entered his Odia film Kalira Atita (Yesterday's Past) for the Oscars this year.…

If you still think issues like global warming and climate change can be ignored, think again. In a rather unusual turn of events, Kalpa, an ancient hill town in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, has suddenly warmed up to 19 degrees Celsius during the last 24 hours. On Sunday, the temperature…

“The electricity would come on and then turn off immediately. Every 30 minutes or hour you would get this moment of hope,” said Paris Moran, of San Antonio, Texas. “I think that was the worst part, mentally.” Moran and her parents, who both have chronic medical conditions requiring electronic devices,…

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Friday that climate change is a "global existential crisis" that must be addressed, as the United States rejoined the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.   "We will all suffer -- we will all suffer -- the consequences if we fail," Biden told leaders at a virtual…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 20, 2020 Lucas Jackson/Reuters This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Joe Biden is likely to bring ESG ETFs as well as infrastructure investing into…

Thirty days after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we celebrate the United States’ re-entry into the Paris Agreement, an important victory for the country and the world. As mayors united in our commitment to address the climate crisis, we recognize this enormous opportunity to raise global climate ambition, and together, invest…

On Wednesday evening, as millions of Texans were without power during a historic and catastrophic cold spell, the state’s junior senator was on his way to Cancun, where it was 84 degrees and sunny, no chance of rain. What was Ted Cruz thinking? A less well-known (or less Very Online)…

Key Takeaways: Sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), created in 2017, and sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), started in 2020, belong to a broader spectrum of financing tools that have recently been rising. Though the sustainable finance trend hasn’t attracted the same media attention as green marketing campaigns, it speaks to a growing need for…