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

Renewable energy is reshaping the global economy – new report

Perhaps the most underappreciated economic benefit of renewables concerns productivity. Cheap, efficient energy is the lifeblood of industrial growth. Renewable energy is now much cheaper than fossil ... 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

Explainer: Why climate-change 'loss and damage' will be a hot topic at COP27

As large parts of the planet struggle with climate-inflicted woes, from floods in Pakistan to forest fires in the United States, the thorny issue of how to address "loss and damage" driven by global ... 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