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

On the first day of this year’s United Nations climate summit, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised attendees that this conference would be different. The 30th annual Conference of ...

A decade after the Paris Agreement, fossil-fuel lobbying, online disinformation and shifting politics are eroding hard-won ...

The louder the lobbying, the clearer the fear. Ten years on, the Paris Agreement has reshaped energy politics, and the pushback from the fossil fuel sector is real.

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

COP30 is failing. Major emitters have not shown up. Virtually all nations are in serious noncompliance with their Paris ...

The Paris spirit — the belief in cooperation, inclusion and scientific responsibility — must continue to guide both governments and civil society. The energy transition cannot rely solely on political ...

COP30 is the 30th “conference of the parties.” The first took place in Berlin in 1995. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, more than 190 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement, pledging to cut emissions ...

The election of Donald Trump has heated up climate change debate, as many of his promises look to roll back environmental regulations. Perhaps the most notable of these promises was Trump's ...

Much has changed since – for better and worse. Real progress has been made: prior to the Paris agreement, the world was on course for 3–3.5°C warming, now the trajectory is 2–2.5°C. But progress has ...

President Trump looks on at French President Macron during a recent visit to Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame. Once again, Donald Trump is pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement, ...

The government's claim it can meet emissions targets without writing "billion-dollar cheques" is implausible, experts say.