Category Archives: Global warming

Uneven Vulnerabilities: A Global Index of Climate Risk for Countries

A new paper rates 170 countries for climate risk exposure. This ambitious and imporant exercise neverthless seems to have key gaps.

Dutch Industry Buckles Under Energy Transition and Global Pressure

High energy costs in Europe, largely due to sanctions against Russia, has spread the gangrene of de-industrialization to the Netherlands

Insurers Dump Catastrophe Risk of Climate Change and Earthquake to Chump Bond Investors. What Could Go Wrong?

Garden variety investors, including retail, are signing up to insure climate change and other disaster risk via catastrophe bonds.

FEMA’s Flood Maps Often Miss Dangerous Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared

Even where FEMA identifies a flood risk, the overreliance on historical data and political influence leads to maps that don’t fully represent true risk.

Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices

More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.

Hurricane Helene Set Up Future Disasters, From Landslides to Flooding – Cascading Hazards Like These Are Now Upending Risk Models

Cascading hazards occur when one natural event alters the landscape in ways that lead to future hazards—and they are increasing.

Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record High Despite Green Efforts

So much for “green energy will save us” hype. Carbon emssions keep rising.

Sustainable Investment Stumbles on Uncertain Pace of Energy Transition

Green energy investment goes wobbly….again.

Take Advantage of These Tax Credits Before Congress Kills Them

An alert: some energy efficiency tax credits are about to be terminated. See if you want to avail yourself of them while you can.

The Dark Side of Ecotourism: When Green Travel Exploits People and the Planet

As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, ecotourism may be doing more harm than good.

Financial Times on Coming Climate-Change-Driven Meltdown in Real Estate: Gradually, Then Suddenly?

A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy

Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought

Cape Town’s drought illustrated that when climate crises become acute, the rich care for themselves irrespective of bigger effects.

China’s Rare Earths Weapon Could Kill Europe’s Auto Industry

More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.

Yanis Varoufakis: In the EU Nothing Succeeds Like Gross Failure: The Astonishing Case of Ursula von der Leyen

A much-deserved evisceration of both Ursuala von der Leyen and the chumps who’ve bought what she has been selling.

Plastic Mulch Promised Better Harvests. It May Be Hurting the Soil Instead.

Plastic mulch pollution may linger for centuries