UN climate chief asks G20 leaders for boost as COP29 finance talks lag
The plea, made in a letter to G20 leaders from UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, comes as negotiators at the COP29 conference in Baku struggle in their negotiations for a deal intended to scale up money to address the worsening impacts of global warming.
Panelists Take On Climate Finance and Politics at Newsweek's COP29 Event
At Newsweek's "Pillars of the Green Transition" event at COP29, panelists talked climate finance and the coming shift in U.S. policy in a second Trump term.
Exclusive-Fragile Countries Make $20 Billion Climate Finance Push at COP29, Letter Says
A group of conflict-affected countries is pushing at COP29 to double financial aid to more than $20 billion a year to combat the natural disaster and security crises facing their populations, a letter seen by Reuters showed.
COP29 climate talks grapple with trillion-dollar task
Developing countries need at least $1 trillion per year by the end of the decade to cope with climate change, economists told U.N. talks in Baku, where early efforts to reach a finance deal risk being overshadowed by diplomatic rows.
Climate finance: who is being asked to pay what at COP29?
"You owe us!" screamed a protest banner at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, where negotiations over how much rich nations most responsible for climate change should pay poorer ones are
Protesters gather at UN climate talks in global day of action as progress on a deal slows
Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what ...
Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star.
At last year’s climate conference in the United Arab Emirates, 22 countries pledged, for the first time, to triple the ...
After drawn-out battle, sweeping climate bill passes Mass. Legislature
The bill’s passage arrived later than planned, but it is a shot in the arm to environmental advocates who have feared a ...
Frustration grows at fossil fuel influence and structure of UN climate talks. Some call for reform
Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to ...
A Big Climate Goal Is Getting Farther Out of Reach
A new report forecasts global temperature increases well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid.
Climate and environment updates: Climate leaders call for major overhaul of summit
The 2.7 degrees estimate is significantly higher than the 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels limit called for in ...
The World Is Looking for a Financial Model to Solve Climate Change. It Doesn’t Have to Look Too Far.
Delegates at COP29 see the private sector as key to finding $2.4 trillion worth of green finance, in a framework that has ...
Democratic senators: Second Trump term will still bring opportunities for climate action
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), two of the Senate’s most aggressive advocates for action on ...
New York judge rejects state efforts to shutter bitcoin mine over climate concerns
A New York judge has rejected an effort by state regulators to shutter a bitcoin mine over concerns about its greenhouse gas ...
At UN climate talks, some see wars complicating negotiators’ task
At the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, wars are top of mind for some leaders and activists who have ...
Democrats Land at Climate Talks With a Message: Don’t Panic
American officials are seeking to assure the world that U.S. climate action won’t end with the return of Donald Trump as ...