2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference

THE HAGUE, Dec 05 (IPS) - At The Hague, the United Nation's highest court heard Fiji, a small island nation, lay out its arguments on the threat posed by climate change and the legal obligations, especially those of developed nations.

CARACAS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The Latin American and Caribbean region is a student with good grades in renewable energy, but not in energy efficiency, and has a long way to go in contributing to global climate action and overcoming the vulnerability of its population and economies.

A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the UN's new climate reparations fund — three months late, and billions of dollars short.

According to data from Caribbean sponges, the world passed 1.5°C of warming a decade ago, but debating these arbitrary limits distracts from the bigger picture

The European Commission released recommendations for slashing the EU's greenhouse gas emissions and a strategy for capturing carbon dioxide.

The world's renewable energy grew at its fastest rate in the past 25 years in 2023, the International Energy Agency reported Thursday in its first assessment...

With a global average temperature of 58.96 degrees, the year was nearly one-third of a degree warmer than the previous hottest year on record, according to officials.

Here's what the summit did—and didn't—change.

Utility workers have raced to repair Ukraine's damaged energy grid. Russia has resumed targeted attacks on Ukraine's energy system — and parts of it may be more vulnerable than ever, experts warn.

Japan has committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, but the legacy of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe makes that goal harder to reach.

Negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference prepared Wednesday to wrap up their first week of work with moderate progress on some issues...

A new analysis shows the cities of COP's past could soon be inundated — if not entirely submerged — by rising ocean waters.

The EPA rule could trim 2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Arianne Teherani has a loud, clear message for the negotiators at COP28: "Climate change is undermining human health, fundamentally, all over the world, right now."

World leaders at climate talks in Dubai invoked faith, science and economics in their calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

Expect heated debates over single words — and even commas — at COP28.

A leaked document has talking points for the president of the United Nations climate conference, who is an oil executive in the United Arab Emirates, to advance oil and gas deals.

Understanding net zero, carbon removal, climate finance, carbon capture and storage, and Scope 3

The environmentalist king, the skeptical PM, and his shape-shifting Tory predecessor will all jostle for prominence at the big climate summit.

The company, whose CEO will lead the upcoming U.N. climate summit, is pledging lofty goals for cutting pollution. But it has a "high" probability of failing to meet them, a document obtained by POLITICO's E&E News says.