Paris agreement

The start of a process by the United States to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord is "very disappointing," Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Tuesday. "Creating a decarbonized society is a pressing issue and (the U.S. move) is very disappointing," Koizumi told reporters. "It'd be ...

Spain will host U.N. climate change talks in December after Chile withdrew, the United Nations said on Friday, a last-minute switch that raises big logistical challenges and has left activist Greta Thunberg stranded on the wrong side of the Atlantic. The U.N. climate change talks, ...

Four years after the signing of the Paris climate accord, a major hitch remains: Countries have not been able to reach an agreement on an accounting trick that would allow them to count greenhouse gas reductions twice. To be sure, the biggest issue remains national ...

As world leaders met in New York, one question kept coming up at climate change events: How did you get here? Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg made headlines for deciding to sail rather than fly to New York for the climate summit that kicked off ...

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg hit back at critics including U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, saying their mockery of children shows her message has become "too loud to handle." The 16-year-old Swede also told a huge Montreal rally that world leaders had disappointed young people ...

A damning new U.N. report published Sunday said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster because of runaway warming, with the five-year period ending in 2019 set to be the hottest ever. It comes ahead of a major U.N. ...

Japan may not bring much more than past promises to U.N. Climate Action Summit.

Greenhouse gases thrust into the atmosphere mainly by burning fossil fuels are warming Earth's surface more quickly than previously understood, according to new climate models set to replace those used in current U.N. projections, scientists said Tuesday. By 2100, average temperatures could rise 7.0 degrees ...

Carbon-heavy development in countries part of China's Belt and Road initiative could render the Paris climate goals unreachable, according to a new analysis on the gargantuan global infrastructure project released Monday. The massive network of ports, railways, roads and industrial parks spanning Asia, Africa, the ...

Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Monday outlined proposals that would govern her policy on international trade, including requiring trade negotiators to disclose drafts of new trade agreements to the public. Warren, who has offered the most voluminous policy proposals in the crowded field of ...