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Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy

Warren Buffett touts wind energy following climate-change criticism

Companies are facing mounting pressure to detail their environmental impacts. Earlier this year, BlackRock Inc.’s Larry Fink said climate change is likely to upend global finance sooner than expected. It’s not the first time Buffett has cited the Iowa wind push: At Berkshire’s annual meeting last year, he brought it up when asked how his conglomerate scores on environmental, social and governance factors.

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Global warming creating ‘Irreversible’ ice melt in Antarctica: Scientist

-The hottest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica of 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.94 degrees Fahrenheit) was taken at a research base there on Feb. 6. If hotter temperatures were to sustain they could cause an extreme global sea level rise.

“This will gradually displace people as it goes,” Thomas said. “We know this is already happening in small island communities and this will just continue to happen gradually as more and more houses are being inundated at high tide, then at normal tide and then even at low tide.”

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Climate change could make premiums unaffordable: QBE Insurance

-The insurer said it has started to adjust its catastrophe models to factor in the expected impacts of climate change until 2100, and would assess the impact on its weather-related exposures from emissions and temperatures.
-In the short-term, QBE would manage higher claims by considering event frequency and severity in its capital planning and will deploy a comprehensive catastrophe reinsurance program, it said.

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