This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong.
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The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s governor and senators.
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The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?
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Austin Becker developed an early warning system to protect critical infrastructure from storms. His project’s funding was eliminated in April.
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But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis.
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The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.
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The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”
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At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
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Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?
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People with rooftop solar panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.
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“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”
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The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.”
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With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.
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The climate-friendly fleet assembled to shuttle delegations to the gathering in Brazil sent a clear signal: China is making inroads in Latin America.
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Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats.
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World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
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Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.
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The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled.
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The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.
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