Climate change

Global insured losses from natural catastrophes now regularly exceed USD 100 billion annually. A new report calls for an all-of-society effort to take action in the face of intensifying weather extremes.

This report presents a two-tier approach to safeguarding home insurance: scaling up local resilience measures and implementing structural reforms to align financial systems with real risk.

In this paper, authors characterise 16 adaptation initiatives according to scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements and examine how change in those initiatives occurred.

In early April, a number of severe storms hit the Central Mississippi river valley in the United States, marked by extreme rainfall and a record number of tornado warnings.

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures, according to a new study published in Nature.

Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow climate crisis that threatens to trigger catastrophic tipping points.

The tandem heat-wave-drought events in the region stretching from Eastern Europe to East Asia are unprecedented, as confirmed by a new study that analyzed tree-ring data going back 300 years and climate models.

Low rainfall, dry soils, and shrinking rivers are pressuring ecosystems, farming, and transport routes across Europe and neighbouring regions.