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Paris Agreement

Is COP27 the End of Hopes for Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius?

The climate talks are going into overtime with little progress toward the emissions cuts required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

By Bob Berwyn

Participants in a demonstration at the UN Climate Summit COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt hold placards reading "Pay up for loss and damage" and "1.5," the temperature to which the Paris Agreement aspired to limit global warming. Credit: Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images
In this photo illustration, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 logo is seen on a smartphone screen. Credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Ahead of COP27, New Climate Reports are Warning Shots to a World Off Course

By Bob Berwyn

In this photo illustration, a woman holds a smartphone with the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 logo in the background. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 event will take place Nov. 6 through 18, 2022, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The US May Have Scored a Climate Victory in Congress, but It Will Be in the Hot Seat With Other Major Emitters at UN Climate Talks

By Marianne Lavelle

Is the Paris Agreement Working?

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel factory on Nov. 19, 2015 in the industrial province of Hebei, China. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

By Phil McKenna

In an aerial view, meltwater flows away from the retreating Reindeer Glacier on Sept. 8, 2021 near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Earth Has a 50-50 Chance of Hitting a Grim Global Warming Milestone in the Next Five Years

By Bob Berwyn

Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

By Katie Surma

A city worker in Glasgow, Scotland scrapes COP26 climate protest posters off a boarded-up storefront on Sauchiehall Street, where the week before thousands of demonstrators marched to express their disappointment with the lack of progress at the annual United Nations negotiations. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP Negotiators Demand Nations do More to Curb Climate Change, but Required Emissions Cuts Remain Elusive

By Bob Berwyn

An interior view of part of the Scottish Event Campus where the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow, United Kingdom this week. Credit: Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Glasgow Climate Talks Are, in Many Ways, ‘Harder Than Paris’

By Bob Berwyn

A demonstrator holds a banner reading "Energy liberate-ourselves from our fossil addictions" during a rally called by several NGOs to form a human chain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015 on the sidelines of the COP21, the UN conference on global warming. Credit: Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images

World Leaders Failed to Bend the Emissions Curve for 30 Years. Some Climate Experts Say Bottom-Up Change May Work Better

By Bob Berwyn

Climate activists gather on a "Global Day of Action" organized by the 'Fridays for Future' climate change movement during the coronavirus pandemic on Sept. 25, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Omer Messinger/Getty Images

Activists Call for Delay to UN Climate Summit, Blaming UK for Vaccine Delays

By Leslie Hook, Financial Times

Oil pump jacks operate at the Inglewood Oil Field in Culver City, California, on July 11, 2021. Credit: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images

To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Lights on the Eiffel Tower In Paris caution "No B Plan" (No Plan B) during the 2015 climate talks.

Global Climate Panel’s Report: No Part of the Planet Will be Spared

By Bob Berwyn

The slogan "For the planet" is projected on the Eiffel Tower as part of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) on Dec. 11, 2015 in Paris, France. Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images

Why the Paris Climate Agreement Might be Doomed to Fail

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A helicopter prepares to make a water drop as smoke billows along the Fraser River Valley near Lytton, British Columbia, on July 2, as a protracted heat wave fueled scores of wildfires in Canada's western provinces. Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Many Nations Receive Failing Scores on Climate Change and Health

By Katie Livingstone

Farmers harvest watermelons in a field on March 26, 2021 in Wanning, Hainan Province of China. Credit: Yuan Chen/VCG via Getty Images

Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production are Far Greater Than Previous Estimates Suggest

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view of Neurath fired-coal power station showing large amount of fumes and pollution, Cologne, Germany. Credit: plus49/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

The Paris Agreement Was a First Step, Not an End Goal. Still, the World’s Nations Are Far Behind

By Katie Livingstone

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders, including rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden became the 46th president of the United States earlier today during the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

With an All-Hands-on-Deck International Summit, Biden Signals the US is Ready to Lead the World on Climate

By Marianne Lavelle

Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. Credit: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images

Ahead of the Climate Summit, Environmental Groups Urge Biden to Champion Methane Reductions as a Quick Warming Fix

By Phil McKenna

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