By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights The National Weather Service says dangerous heat will affect much of the western U.S. this week, with temperatures up to 120°F. Forecasters say this heat wave will be…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights The Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contains about 160 trillion tons of ice, which if it melted, would cause about 1.5 feet of sea-level…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights When the history of the world’s energy transition away from fossil fuels is written, the Keystone XL oil pipeline battle of the past decade will be recorded as…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights As Europe readies the first carbon border levies, a disturbing estimate arrives of the financial impact of sudden taxes on polluters, and their economies. SAN FRANCISCO (Callaway Climate…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Two signs of the climate finance apocalypse this week, as stock markets flirt with record highs. A California non-profit claims to be the first carbon offset program to accept…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights In the frothy world of ESG stocks, ocean investing is still just a proverbial drop in the $2 trillion bucket. The same confusing metrics and lack of definition…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights As much as 10% of the world’s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California’s Sequoia National Forest last summer, a new draft…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Tesla’s weak stock performance this year may be self-inflicted, but every damaging new revelation strengthens the opposition on Capitol Hill to the massive plan for electric vehicles in President…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Can’t help noticing that the two biggest cyber attacks this spring — Colonial Pipeline and now JBS, the Brazilian meat giant — have targeted the black hats of…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Today marks the start of hurricane season. Ana, the first name on the list above, already formed in May and the next named storm for this season will…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Oil prices rose Thursday. With environmental activists still celebrating the historic hat trick of legal and shareholder victories Wednesday against ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Shell (RDS.B), and…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights In the wake of the Trump Administration’s last-ditch attempt to discourage environmental, social and governance investing in retirement plans last year, two members of Congress are unveiling new…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights When I was a young foreign correspondent in the City of London in the ‘90s, I often marveled at how different that small “Square Mile” was from the…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights A more dramatic test of Wall Street’s commitment to financing a climate transition to renewable energy couldn’t have been devised this week, even by Hollywood or the network…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Asked what he would do about ESG if he ran a big university endowment, former Treasury secretary and Harvard University President Larry Summers told a Citi sustainability conference this…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights SAN FRANCISCO (Callaway Climate Insights) — One of the darlings of the boom in environmental, social and governance stocks in the past year has been Trane Technologies (TT), which…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights As the Securities and Exchange Commission prepares for its introduction of new climate and human capital disclosure laws this summer, it’s useful to consider the impact of its…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights I took my first cross-country plane ride since the pandemic started over the weekend; an almost-full United flight to Newark from San Francisco. Aside from the masks and…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Nobody knows for sure why Elon Musk ended his two-month flirtation with Bitcoin this week, but we do know that Tesla made about $100 million in profit in the first…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Miami-Dade County, which is facing both rising temperatures and rising sea levels, has created a first-of-its-kind position: chief heat officer. Read more in our editor’s picks section. Callaway Climate…
