With wild fires raging in Los Angeles and flooding closer to home, Gov. Ned Lamont called Tuesday for measures to combat climate change in Connecticut in order to preserve property and even save
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Friday it had withdrawn from a global body of central banks and regulators devoted to exploring ways to police climate risk in the financial system. In a statement,
The Federal Reserve is withdrawing from an environmental group for global central bankers. The Fed joined the group, the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, in
Near the end of 2024, the world's hottest year on record, major U.S. banks and asset managers withdrew from initiatives under which they had committed to adhere to lending and business practices that would help achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The Federal Reserve announced that it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, which incorporated climate risk into financial rules.
The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the financial system could help combat climate change. The Fed's membership has been criticized by Republicans in Congress.
As the impacts of climate change visibly surge along the west coast, Newport and its sister communities are working on plans to strengthen Aquidneck Island against climate change’s more damaging effects.
As college students (one from Minas Gerais, Brazil, the other from California), we were excited to be part of the global youth team designing this curriculum. Our generation has grown up knowing that our planet is suffering under the intense duress of climate change.
The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has envisioned this scenario and taken bold preventive action. In a ground-breaking move, the central bank has introduced two transformative guidelines mandating banks and financial institutions to integrate sustainability and climate risk into their reporting frameworks.
Following two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in West Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality in less than a year. The spike in temperatures caused the precipitation to fall as rain instead of snow.
Former central banker Mark Carney picked up a handful of endorsements on Tuesday, including from the government's most vocal climate champion, as the Liberal leadership race whizzes ahead on a tight timeline.