More than 100 countries agree: It’s time to end deforestation
Leaders from more than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030, as part of an agreement inked Tuesday at COP26, the United Nations climate summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. The...
View ArticleBanks with $130 trillion in assets pledge to fund climate action. Activists...
Financing the transition to a carbon-free economy is one of the most pressing issues at this year’s United Nations climate conference in Glasgow — and it has been a busy first few days. On Wednesday,...
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Report: Poor countries need 5 to 10 times more funding to adapt to climate...
The COP26 climate negotiations taking place in Glasgow this month are charged with the inequity of the climate crisis. Wealthy nations like the U.S., Germany, and the U.K. have sent carbon emissions...
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Blast from the past: Coal sends global emissions to pre-pandemic highs
In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a screeching halt, some dared to wonder whether the coronavirus could have a lasting impact on climate change. Huge amounts of carbon...
View ArticleThe government’s new ‘Earthshot’— making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the...
The U.S. government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced...
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Photos of the furious, sardonic protests surrounding COP26
An estimated 100,000 protesters took to the streets in Glasgow, Scotland, this weekend to demand that world leaders meeting for a two-week-long United Nations climate change conference take stronger...
View ArticleReport exposes the shaky data undermining the world’s progress on climate change
World leaders and diplomats are gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, this month for the 26th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to tout their countries’ progress on...
View ArticleAt COP26, Pete Buttigieg makes a pitch to decarbonize American transport
The biggest source of emissions in the United States isn’t the fires of industry, or methane-belching cows, or even the country’s remaining 252 coal power plants. It’s the cars, planes, ships, and...
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COP26 draft text annotated: what it says and what it means
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The draft text is the most important document that will emerge from the COP26...
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46% of people say they don’t need to change their habits for the climate
Delegates attending the international climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, have lots of big decisions to make — including in the dining hall. Instead of counting calories, the menu at COP26...
View ArticleAt COP26, 7 countries initiate the beginning of the end of fossil fuels
If the 26th United Nations climate conference is remembered for one thing, it might be that it marked the first time world leaders finally addressed the elephant in the room: fossil fuels. In 2015,...
View ArticleCOP26 made real progress. It also isn’t enough.
After two weeks of discussion, infighting, and occasional tears, negotiators at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, finally reached an agreement on...
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The progress (and failures) of COP26, in 3 charts
After two weeks of tense negotiations at COP26 in Scotland, the world has a new international climate change agreement: the Glasgow Climate Pact. The new document does not replace the landmark Paris...
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Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working
The Paris Agreement shouldn’t be working. In many ways, the landmark climate accord, agreed to at a U.N. summit in 2015, is a weak treaty. Despite the fanfare that accompanied its signing, the...
View ArticleDays after COP26, US pledge to cut aviation emissions gets rerouted
At international climate talks earlier this month, the U.S. tried to prove to the rest of the world that it would once again be a leader in tackling climate change after several years of backpedaling...
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Indigenous leaders left COP26 disappointed, but celebrating ‘small wins’
After two intense weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, Indigenous leaders attending the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference are finally returning home. As the dust settles, many of them have begun to...
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Countries finally agreed to create an international carbon market. Here’s why...
The Glasgow climate pact, the final agreement that came out of this month’s United Nations climate summit, is filled with fuzzy statements. It “urges,” “requests,” “invites,” or “welcomes” nations to...
View ArticleThe majority of the world promised to end deforestation. But businesses are...
While a majority of the world signed up to end deforestation at the United Nations climate conference in November, most of the globe’s most influential businesses and financial institutions are still...
View ArticleStudy: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually...
In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees...
View ArticleThe world’s climate plans overlook people with disabilities
Countries across the world have largely left people with disabilities out of their climate policies, according to a report published on Friday. As a result of that oversight, when climate disasters...
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