I saw this tension firsthand at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the annual UN climate summit. The energy there was unmistakable—a ...

COP30 is the 30th “conference of the parties.” The first took place in Berlin in 1995. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, more than ...

The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand ...

The 30th Conference of the Parties concluded in Brazil this month, with delegates focused on reinforcing the 2015 Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Central to this year's ...

Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at ...

Few diplomatic organizations punch above their weight quite like the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis). With no fixed ...

The United Nations’ global climate summit has finished for another year. Some progress was made in Brazil on climate finance and adaptation. But efforts to end reliance on fossil fuels were stymied by ...

Push for ‘road map’ on how economies can wean off coal, oil and gas fails but Brazilian presidency promises to follow up ...

The world has failed to limit rising temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels – the goal set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the UN secretary general has said. Speaking ahead of the Cop30 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn’t quite kept the world from ...

The louder the lobbying, the clearer the fear. Ten years on, the Paris Agreement has reshaped energy politics, and the ...

First, the bad news: The US is very important to the Paris Agreement. If Donald Trump chooses not to enforce Obama’s climate policies, there is very little chance the world will be able to contain ...