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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi, speaks at an opening ceremony at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Top world leaders to speak at UN climate summit.Global warming, fossil fuels will be high in mind

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders including the Saudi crown prince and India's prime minister were to speak, but two of the world's most powerful men — President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent.

By Jamey Keaten & Seth Borenstein | News, Politics | December 1st 2023

A man carries water containers ahead of the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Why hold UN climate talks 28 times? Do they matter?

Ask most people what the annual U.N. climate talks are and the likely answer will be: “Huh?” Ask those who do know and the answer may be: “Why should I care?"

By Peter Prengaman | News, Politics | December 1st 2023

Now we need real climate leadership

COP28 must deliver a global agreement to phase out fossil fuel production.

Opinion

Negotiating survival

By Julia Levin | Opinion | November 30th 2023

New investments in coal, oil and gas are an existential threat

COP28 outcomes must be explicit — systems transformations to build climate resilience do not include coal, oil and gas investments.

Opinion

By Sabaa Khan | Opinion | November 28th 2023

Previous centuries created the right conditions for human-caused climate change, but the last few generations made it a reality. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it

Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

By Dana Beltaji | News | November 27th 2023

Papua penguins walk at the Bernardo O'Higgins military base in Antarctica, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

With climate talks set to begin next week, UN chief Guterres visits crucial Antarctica

On the cusp of the COP28 climate talks, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited frozen-but-rapidly melting Antarctica on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, and said intense action must be taken at the conference where countries will address their commitments to lowering emissions of planet-warming gases.

By Isabella O'malley & Alexandre Plaza | News | November 24th 2023

A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton on Dec. 28, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Don’t bank on carbon capture, IEA tells fossil fuel firms

In a new report, the Paris-based International Energy Agency said oil and gas companies need to start "letting go of the illusion" that "implausibly large" amounts of carbon capture are the solution to the global climate crisis.

By Amanda Stephenson | News | November 23rd 2023

Vesta Terminals holding oil are reflected in Tallinn, Estonia, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

The oil and gas industry must slash planet-heating operations to save climate: IEA report

The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extreme weather events fuelled by human-caused climate change, the International Energy Agency said.

By Sibi Arasu | News | November 23rd 2023

Flood survivor Abdul Salam Anwisi looks at the destroyed homes following flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya, on Sept. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Money to compensate developing nations for climate change promises to be hot topic at COP28

Sunil Kumar watched helplessly in July as his home and 14 others were washed away by intense monsoon rains lashing the Indian Himalayas.

By Gaurav Saini & Sibi Arasu | News | November 22nd 2023

A wildfire burns south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, near Highway 63 on Saturday, May 7, 2016. (Photo by Jonathan Hayward /The Canadian Press via AP, File)

John Vaillant's book on Fort McMurray fire wins prestigious British prize

A book about a fire that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

By Jill Lawless | News | November 17th 2023

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