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SEC Signals It May Curb Climate Rule Ambitions
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials have told lobbyists and corporate executives in recent days that the agency's long-anticipated climate rules may ...
Climate Activists Tell Insurance CEOs to Stop Covering Carbon Projects ‘Immediately’
A group of climate activists has called on 30 insurance company CEOs to "immediately" stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects in the wake of a stark climate warning ...
Net-Zero Emissions Pledges by Big Global Companies Have ‘Credibility Gaps’: Report
Corporate plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions fall short of what is needed to combat climate change, with "major credibility gaps" found among the world's largest companies, according to a new ...
U.S. Sees More Deadly Billion-Dollar Disasters as Carbon Emissions Soar
The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021 while the nation's greenhouse gas emissions jumped 6 percent because ...
Insurers Join Initiative to Slash Carbon Emissions From Global Shipping
Leading companies in the marine insurance industry have joined an initiative linking their underwriting activities with the cutting of carbon emissions from global shipping as pressure builds on the ...
Eight Global Insurers, Reinsurers Unveil Net-Zero Climate Alliance
Eight of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies on Sunday launched an alliance to help speed up a transition to a net zero emissions economy. The companies, which include Europe's ...
Climate Change Spurs Britain’s Biggest Investor to Drop AIG, Others From Some Funds
Legal & General Investment Management, Britain's biggest asset manager, said on Tuesday it would drop four companies from a number of its funds over their "insufficient" response to the challenge ...
Zurich Insurance Deepens Climate Change Strategy
Zurich Insurance Group said it will be taking further, deeper steps to help curb carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement's goals to limit global warming. Targets will include its own ...