Ahead of the 2015 Paris climate negotiations, a U.N. report found that the world was on course for 3.7 to 4.8 degrees C of warming without further action to cut emissions. That is a level of warming ...

The U.S. is officially out of the Paris Agreement, a global climate pact that seeks to limit the Earth’s rising temperatures.

A decade ago, the world got together and decided to fix the climate crisis by adopting the Paris Agreement. I remember it like yesterday. This was December 2015 at the UN climate talks in Paris. I was ...

In the decade since the Paris climate agreement was hammered out, countries have made only halting efforts toward meeting the accord’s goal of limiting global warming. But even that modest progress ...

The world is producing too much coal, oil and natural gas to meet the targets set 10 years ago under the Paris Agreement, in which countries agreed to limit climate pollution and avoid the worst ...

New national plans designed to more aggressively combat climate change would hardly dent already dangerously high global temperature projections, according to a United Nations report published Tuesday ...

When world leaders convene in Belem, Brazil, next month for the United Nations COP30 climate talks it will mark ten years since the landmark Paris Climate Agreement to cut emissions enough to avoid ...

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Lisa Vanhala has received funding from the European Research Council and she has consulted for the United Nations Environment Program Copenhagen Climate Center, 3IE and the Adaptation Fund Technical ...

In mid-July 2021 western Europe was hit by devastating floods after torrential rains ravaged entire villages.CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP—Getty Images Founder and chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group ...