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13 November 2021, United Kingdom, Glasgow: People are standing under a globe at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26. For two weeks in Glasgow, around 200 countries are struggling to find a way to ...

I found myself muttering, “I love the smell of downwardly managed expectations in the morning” as COP26’s final weekend in Glasgow approached. But I am no Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore and this is not ...

Glasgow — Negotiations between dozens of nations over steps to curb the rate of global warming had come down to the wire on Friday, the last day of the United Nations COP26 climate change conference ...

The Conference of the Trees at the New York Times Climate Hub. Photo courtesy: the New York Times. On Tuesday, after attending the Climate Hub, I returned to the COP venue and stopped by the pavilion ...

Governments endorsed the Glasgow Climate Pact and made new pledges on deforestation, methane emissions, coal, and more. But critics say they failed to secure more ambitious commitments to limit global ...

For a fortnight, the international faith community has had a widespread presence at the United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26. Within the conference, people of ...

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP26 wraps up today in Glasgow without ever really discussing nuclear power. As COP26 wraps up today, the elephant in the room was why nuclear ...

The last time I remember being pulled so strongly in opposite directions, it was November of 2016. I had just spent a year of my life campaigning to become the Fifth District Supervisor. I won the ...

Six years ago, when the hammer was gaveled and the Paris Agreement agreed upon, the negotiators gathered at the massive conference complex on the outskirts of Paris erupted in applause and left the ...

Environmental activists are crying foul over the first draft of decision text from the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) for not explicitly mentioning a fossil fuel phaseout. While the 850-word ...