Global World News Climate Change Could Become A Global Economic Disaster

Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future

In the Global South, climate summits arrive like monsoons – heavy with promise, quick to pass. We gather each year to count pledges and repeat the same unresolved arithmetic: those who did the least ... Read More

The U.S. economy could benefit from a green exit - unless the world follows suit, report claims

A Bloomberg Economics study finds the U.S. could gain 1% GDP growth by abandoning green energy if other nations continue renewable pursuits. But if other countries follow the U.S. and pivot away from ... Read More

The Adaptation Finance Gap Has Become A Global Stability Risk

Adaptation finance is falling as climate shocks intensifying, putting global stability, sovereign debt, and financial systems at risk without urgent reform. Read More

Could climate change create a new dust bowl?

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term drought affects crucial grassland and shrubland ecosystems around the world. Read More

The real cost of climate change: Global warming could make the average person 24% poorer by 2100

Climate change could push humanity into a dystopian nightmare of fires, biblical–scale floods and food shortages. But those lucky enough to survive the chaos could end up living amid a global economic ... Read More

Climate summit hears from countries suffering from harms, destruction linked to global warming

Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered vivid dispatches of life on the front line of the climate crisis Friday as world leaders gathered on the edge of the imperiled Amazon ... Read More

U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ... Read More