John Howell

2 weeks ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | John Howell

Here is a climate finance riddle. Why are insurance companies posting record profits even as climate-related losses from natural disasters reach historic highs? Despite a $182 billion price tag for losses due to weather-related disasters in the US last year, property and casualty insurers reported a near-doubling of their earnings over 2023. After-tax profits of the industry totaled $171 billion last year, compared to $92 billion the previous year.

1 month ago | climateandcapitalmedia.com | John Howell

It’s planting time in America’s rural heartland, those states in the Midwest, the Great Plains, and the Mid-South Delta regions that make up the nation’s “breadbasket.” But this year the usual spring optimism that fuels farmers is subdued by the increasingly extreme weather, compounded by inflation, uncertainty around federal government farm support policies and most profoundly — by a new world of reciprocal tariffs that threatens billions in US agriculture exports.

Oct 27, 2024 | greenmoney.com | John Howell |Michelle Mosser |Cliff Feigenbaum

Above image: A Green Bank 50 project, electrifying school buses in Nevada. Photo source ZUMAs the clock ticks on Biden climate initiatives, major green banks take action. Climate Week NYC produced a veritable tsunami of announcements, initiatives and progress reports. With an estimated 100,000 climate-focused professionals, activists and journalists attending more than 900 official events and scores of unofficial ones, it’s no wonder that some of this news flies under the radar.

Oct 9, 2024 | climateandcapitalmedia.com | John Howell

As the clock ticks on Biden climate initiatives, major green banks take actionClimate Week NYC produced a veritable tsunami of announcements, initiatives, and progress reports. With an estimated 100,000 climate-focused professionals, activists, and journalists attending more than 900 official events and scores of unofficial ones, it’s no wonder that some of this news flies under the radar.

Apr 25, 2024 | climateandcapitalmedia.com | John Howell

Climate & Capital’s finance editor and farmer offers an early spring preview of crop production under new climate conditions. Bulletin from the front lines of America’s agricultural heartland:It’s planting time in the Heartland of the U.S., that time of year when Midwestern and Mid-Southern farmers “keep a weather eye open” for the unpredictable spring weather that affects operations.