"Some towns may have to be abandoned": in England, the number of properties at risk from flooding is set to increase from 6.3 to 8 million, with the number of properties in high-risk areas for flash flooding likely to increase by up to 66% by mid-century www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Recent developments in the insurance industry suggest Thallinger’s concern (expressed in post below) is widely shared. As long as policymakers fail to act on the signals they’re sending, insurers’ ability to tackle this problem will be limited" www.ft.com/content/5e0b...

"Scientists warn that if current trends in sea level rise continue, more than 45% of the Delta could be submerged within decades, displacing millions and jeopardising Vietnam’s food security" #Vietnam 🇻🇳 #ClimateEmergency

“Climate risks will be wide-reaching and secular, not narrow and cyclical. Those at risk include homeowners, banks, insurers, and holders of securitized mortgages" - Kevin Stiroh, former Fed official www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cost of Europe's extreme weather doubled this decade - and could hit €126 billion by 2029 “Protecting nature is not a cost: it is an investment in competitiveness, resilience, and the well-being of citizens” - @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

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. www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

#Climaterisk: Japan’s largest non-life insurer is betting its acquisition of an engineering consultancy that specialises in natural disaster mitigation can help keep customers’ expenses in check as climate change raises recovery costs www.ft.com/content/e2f9...

Now you know why the current American regime is leading the climate denial charge.

“The government must publish any assessment of these risks and be straight with the public on the scale of the environmental challenges we face.” - Dr. Mike Barrett, @wwf.org.uk

Kevin Stiroh, formerly the leading climate official at the Federal Reserve, has joined Resources For The Future as a founding member of the advisory committee for the Climate-related Financial and Macroeconomic Risk Initiative via @climateproof.news www.climateproof.news/p/people-mov...

Why pension funds are still pushing for climate action Pension funds and other long-term asset owners have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the interests of beneficiaries decades into the future... www.ft.com/content/fd81...

Perhaps there's a good reason No.10 blocked the release of a govt report that shows rainforest collapse = higher food $$ in UK... would love to know it...

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh Ditto Shepherds pie Feel free to add your own below 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Every so often you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to change minds. This chart from @hausfath.bsky.social is one of those, directly refuting at least 2 standard climate-denier talking points we've heard from Trump recently Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Extreme heat kills more Americans than floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. FEMA's response? It just rejected a recommendation to measure the financial impact of mitigation projects. Meanwhile, insurers are warning of $400B+ in annual losses by 2035. www.riskmarketnews.com/nations-dead...

"Should the discussions bear fruit, India - among the nations most prone to extreme weather events - could become one of the first major economies to roll out such a programme." www.reuters.com/sustainabili... (1/2)

Drought is climate change's biggest threat: If this winter is as dry as last winter, and no major reductions in use occur, Lake Powell by 2027 would have no storage left and “would have to be operated as a ‘run of river' facility” in which only the inflow from the river could be released downstream.

FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh… …but she is ignoring a few small details: 🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter 🤫 Gas plants cost money to build 🤫 CO2 causes economic damages THREAD with receipts 1/8

Climate risk ‘cannot be about politics,’ say sustainable investors seeking bipartisan collaboration “We need to take the government’s thumb off the scales here, allow markets to function properly, allow businesses to operate as they see fit”... www.esgdive.com/news/climate...

New Zealand’s oceans are warming 34% faster than the global average, with US$104bn worth of housing and $26bn worth of infrastructure at risk of flooding “a coastal storm that used to happen every 100 years could start happening every year” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Pakistan's catastrophic floods show why we need just and effective climate finance "The cost of inaction – economic disruption, forced migration, geopolitical instability, lost human potential – far outweighs the investment required for adaptation" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

From Realtor's 2025 Housing and Climate Risk Report: US homes at "severe or extreme" #climaterisk: Flood: 6% of homes ($3.4 tr in value, inc. $1 tr outside FEMA flood zones so mostly uninsured) Wind: 18% of homes ($8 tr) Wildfire: 5.6% ($3 tr) www.realtor.com/research/cli...

Rising sea levels threaten over 100 million buildings. Where does Europe stand? "under a high emissions scenario, sea level rise could cost a staggering €872 billion in total by the year 2100"... and much more after 2100 www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently? Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on! So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

India's government has begun early-stage talks with local insurers about designing a nationwide climate-linked ("parametric") insurance programme aimed at simplifying the payout process after extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The US is pursuing "energy dominance" and forcing allies to buy US oil and gas. And, yet, China is beating the US on energy exports. Surprised? Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Atlantic hurricanes may now be more than twice as likely to strengthen from a weak Category 1 hurricane to a major Category 3 or stronger hurricane in a 24-hour period than they were between 1970 and 1990" phys.org/news/2023-10...

"As climate costs stack up, companies will come under pressure from investors to take resilience seriously. Companies that prepare ahead of time will be rewarded; those that don’t risk being forced to change once the crisis gets to a breaking point"... time.com/7323198/comp...

36% Deadlier: #Ragasa Exposes Why COP30 Needs to Save Asia’s Future New research finds climate change supercharged the storm’s fury, making it 36% more destructive in China Ragasa stands as a stark indictment of inaction ahead of #COP30... thinktank.pk/2025/10/03/3...

This is really interesting “GreenieRe sees ‘impact insurance’ surety bonds as key to scaling climate tech: We haven’t really seen insurance as an investable asset class for impact investors. We want to create an impact investment vehicle.” t.co/UEAsfgxQ0B?s...

Climate change may have been responsible for more than a third of the direct damage to homes and property caused by super typhoon #Ragasa that struck southern China last month - new "event impact attribution" study by @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Now, scientists have the data to show how societally destructive wildfires — ones that kill people and cause huge financial losses — are growing all across the world and are becoming much more common because of climate change. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Australians and foreign tourists are now walking the fire line as climate extremes reshape plans. In many places, rising heat and sudden dry spells increase the threat of bushfire. Tourists may encounter road closures, smoke haze, or delayed itineraries... www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s “We’re loading the dice in a sense by increasing temperatures"... www.journalgazette.net/news/health-...

Home insurers’ "shady tactic": stealth increasing your deductible Progressive, State Farm and Travelers are among the insurers whose fine-print changes have cut the size of payouts that millions of US policyholders can expect on damage from severe weather www.ft.com/content/1e3d...

"Cutting rates might be the simplest and least-controversial approach to helping the climate" "Climate disasters are increasing as the planet warms, hurting economic growth and driving up prices. That $2.7 trillion in potential housing losses is at least a localized threat to banks"...

"Europe’s biggest weather forecaster @ecmwf.int is reporting record demand for its data from energy traders, insurers, shipping lines and tech companies rush", as "climate change increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events"... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Big Short" investor David Burt on central banks, interest rates, and climate risk: "It's kind of ironic, because if the Fed was actually paying attention to climate risk and how it's affecting homeowners, instead of being told not to, they would probably be more accommodative..."

"In mainstream economics, dealing with climate change is an issue of trade-offs: how much growth do we sacrifice today to limit damage tomorrow? But if tipping points are real and ecological damage is irreversible, the basis for this form of economic thinking is destroyed" - @meadwaj.bsky.social

"Food inflation has been rising also in the rest of Europe as a result of increased commodity costs, often linked to climate change events"...

Noise reduction benefits from EV adoption in the US estimated at $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in urban areas www.nber.org/papers/w34298

Investing in a beach house? You’re betting—just like traders in crypto perpetual futures. There are risks you can’t control, from price swings to back-to-back climate disasters. In 2025, it's closer to speculating than you might think. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

Europe’s bill for extreme weather damage more than doubles this decade average annual economic losses amounted to €44.5bn between 2020 and 2023 this report comes as the EU is struggling to adopt its 2040 climate goal... www.ft.com/content/b119...

ECB blog: "When groceries bite: the role of food prices for inflation in the euro area" "increases in labour costs and in global food commodity prices partially linked to climate change have played an important role in pushing up food inflation" www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

“The burden of proof has flipped: why is nature not material to your business?…The future of risk management lies in recognising the natural world not as an externality, but as infrastructure, and pricing and valuing it accordingly.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

... whereas "adhering to Paris Agreement goals could generate a modest 0.25% global benefit compared to scenarios where temperatures continue rising at historical rates" Projected country-level impacts: Canada -31% US, South Africa -28% Sweden -20% Finland -18% Norway -17%

New study led by Cambridge's Kamiar Mohaddes finds unchecked climate change could lead to a global GDP per capita loss of up to 24% by 2100, affecting all countries, rich and poor, hot and cold #CostOfInaction www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/c...