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Posted: 2017-04-20T09:46:36Z | Updated: 2017-04-20T12:04:53Z

NEW YORK Over the past two years, corporate giants have become some of the loudest voices calling for climate-change action. Automakers that once killed the electric car are racing to roll out zero-emissions rivals to Tesla. Even Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil behemoth that spent decades bankrolling a Big Tobacco-style campaign to discredit global warming, has named a climate scientist to its board.

Now, Bloomberg, the titan of business and financial journalism, is adding a site devoted to climate science and the future of energy to its sprawling news empire.

The data and media giant on Thursday launched ClimateChanged.com , a hub for coverage of how rising global temperatures are changing the planet and moving financial markets.

Climate change is fundamentally an economic story, its an economic problem, Eric Roston, Bloombergs sustainability editor, told The Huffington Post in an interview on Tuesday. Its naturally a business story and its naturally a concern to rationally minded executives in any sized enterprise.

The site fits comfortably into Bloombergs stable of products, anchored by its lucrative data terminal business. In December 2015, just before 195 countries reached the historic emissions-cutting deal known as the Paris Agreement, Bloomberg published its Carbon Clock , featuring a carbon dioxide tracker overlaid on satellite images of the Earth. The company owns Bloomberg New Energy Finance , a data firm dedicated to the energy industry. Michael Bloomberg, who returned to his namesake company after his third term as New York City mayor, is an outspoken climate advocate, who this week published a book with former Sierra Club chief Carl Pope on how cities and businesses can lead energy reform.

Droves of reporters at Bloombergs more than 150 bureaus around the world regularly file stories on climate change. Climate Changed will collect those stories in one, sleekly designed location.

For the launch, the site will include a feature on how communities in South Florida are coping with rising waters; a short animated video series on heat, extreme weather and the cost of carbon; and a multi-part graphic on Russias growing influence in the fast-warming Arctic.