Global World News Climate Change Could Become A Global Economic Disaster

Climate disasters will send many countries into a debt spiral—but there's a way out

After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal ... 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

Climate change: 'Unprecedented' economic transformation now needed

At the U.N. COP26 climate summit last year, nations agreed to make more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Read More

Leaders at the Global Climate Summit Highlight the Rising Toll of Warming

Instead, with heat-trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continuing to rise, the world is on track to warm by roughly 2.8 degrees Celsius. Scientists have said that ... Read More

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters. Critics of mainstream climate science and allies ... Read More

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies. President Donald Trump rebuked world leaders for being overly concerned about ... 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

Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ... Read More

Why Trump is not a death knell for global climate action

Matt McDonald has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK. In his rambling speech to the United Nations last month, United States ... Read More