CO₂ Leadership Brief

Hurricane Helene was a significant human tragedy, with more than 200 deaths reported as of Oct. 9 and thousands more left homeless; Hurricane Milton, close on its heels, brought more devastation.

- Justin Worland

The damage in dollars from those storms is still being tallied, but on an annual basis, the cost from climate-related extremeweather events easily reaches the tens of billions. Despite the magnitude of these numbers, it's easy to let them go in one ear and out of the other. After all, historically a mix of government institutions and insurance companies have absorbed the cost of a few of these disasters every year, p