Paris Accord

Trump's decision to remove the U.S. for a second time means the world's second-most polluting nation is not part of the pact. It upends Biden's promise in the final weeks of his presidency to lower U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2035.

when the numbers keep breaking the wrong records — 2023 was the hottest year on record — sometimes we just have to tally it up.

Previous summits have ended with funds established to help developing countries transition to green energies, pledges to slash pollution and promises to keep people most vulnerable at the centre of policy discussions.

Senior government officials at a climate meeting in Copenhagen gave a muted response on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, to calls from the head of the United Nations for countries to show greater ambition when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The fate of a tiny village has sparked heated debate in Germany over the country's continued use of coal and whether tackling climate change justifies breaking the law.

As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.

Government ministers are returning to Egypt to take over negotiations at this year's U.N. climate talks, providing diplomats with the political backing they need to clinch credible agreements that would help prevent disastrous levels of warming in the coming decades.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says a new report from the United Nations' climate agency shows the oil and gas sector "cannot do business as usual" even as the government is still considering approving a massive new offshore oil production project.

Negotiations between scientists and governments over a key United Nations climate report were going down to the wire on Sunday, April 3, 2022, as officials from major emerging economies insisted that it should recognize their right to development.

Despite decades of climate conferences, promises, and deals, methane and carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise at faster than ever rates. Barry Saxifrage has the receipts.

Barack Obama expressed confidence at U.N. climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.

The CleanBC program uses two complementary carbon tax initiatives to encourage greenhouse gas emission reductions.

A new report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the United Nations said on Friday, September 17, 2021.

The U.N.'s top climate official urged governments Monday to stop their “deferral and delay” tactics and instead embrace rapid, widespread measures to curb and adapt to global warming.