John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking…
More than two-thirds of UN member states have declared they are open to a new agreement to stem the rising tide of plastic waste.
Support is growing internationally for a new global treaty to tackle…
Plan includes home insulation and replacing gas boilers to ensure country reaches its climate targets.
A decade-long rollout of home insulation and heat pumps to replace gas boilers is urgently…
Study calls for more focus on farming and food waste, behind a third of greenhouse gas production.
Our diets and agricultural production around the world are so carbon-intensive that emissions from…
Biden’s presidency could help reduce global heating by about 0.1C if plans fulfilled, say experts.
The election of Joe Biden as president of the US could reduce global heating by about 0.1C,…
Other nations are stepping up targets to reduce emissions — but the world will struggle to meet its goals.
Regardless of who wins the US presidential election, the United States officially pulls out…
Switzerland is in the process of completely revising its CO2-Act, its key piece of climate change legislation. The current draft is stronger than the version that the National Council failed to adopt…
WASHINGTON: Joe Biden vowed Wednesday that the US would rejoin the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House, hours after the withdrawal ordered by Donald Trump took effect.
"Today,…
This is going to drag on now. There will be challenges and counter-challenges, lawsuits and recounts. Maybe protests, maybe violence. It’s been almost 24 hours since the polls closed and it’s…
On 4 November, the US officially exits the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
As the US election hangs in the balance, the consequences of four years of President Trump continue to take effect.
Whatever…
The need to respond to climate change is triggering perhaps the largest and fastest economic transition since the Industrial Revolution.
The need to respond to climate change is triggering perhaps…
GENEVA – The governments of Peru and Switzerland today signed the first agreement between Parties to the Paris Agreement for the sale of emission reductions generated under Article 6 of the…
Country will need to kick addiction to coal and build eye-watering amount of wind and solar capacity.
China’s President Xi Jinping stunned climate action observers in a speech at the United Nations…
Mock Cop26 set up in frustration at lack of progress due to coronavirus crisis.
Young climate activists have begun a parallel process to the UN climate crisis talks, in frustration at the lack of…
Leaked proposal includes carbon sinks provided by trees, soils and oceans in target.
The EU executive has been accused of “cheating” on its 2030 climate plans by proposing to include carbon sinks…
Bonn– A new online platform on sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 has been launched by the Government of Japan with support from UN Climate Change.
The new platform, called “Platform…
The 7 climate deniers: Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya, South Sudan and Yemen.
More than four years after the Paris Agreement was adopted, eight of 197 signatories have not formally backed the…
G20 countries aim their pandemic bailout spending at fossil fuel industries, leaving Paris climate change targets in doubt.
Governments are spending vastly more in support of fossil fuels than on…
There’s a one in five chance that average global warming will hit 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in at least one of the next five years, and a 70% chance that at least one month will exceed that…
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