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

Tribal lands studied sequester far more carbon than non-Indigenous regions. Yet Indigenous’ rights are often ignored and the forests the tribes protect are exploited or lost.

By Katie Surma

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

Manjai Sah outside his house in Pir-muhammadpur village which was twice submerged by flooding. Credit: Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images

Latest IPCC Report Marks Progress on Climate Justice

By Bob Berwyn

A convoy of Russian military vehicles is seen as the vehicles move towards border in Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022 in Russian border city Rostov. Credit: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle

An Indian boy walks through plastic waste on Juhu beach in Mumbai on June 2, 2018. Credit: Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images

For the First Time, Nations Band Together in a Move Toward Ending Plastics Pollution

By James Bruggers

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appears on a screen as he delivers a remote speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on Feb. 28, 2022 in Geneva. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

By Bob Berwyn

Children play in piles of plastic waste collected for recycling in Makassar, Indonesia, in February 2022. Credit: Andri Saputra / AFP via Getty Images.

Biden Could Score a Climate Victory in a Single Word: Plastics

By James Bruggers

Workers carry and organize plastic bottles in the Dongxiaokou village on the outskirts of Beijing. Credit: Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images

World Talks on a Treaty to Control Plastic Pollution Are Set for Nairobi in February. How To Do So Is Still Up in the Air

By James Bruggers

Activists seen holding banner during a protest ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Credit: Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

At COP26, a Consensus That Developing Nations Need Far More Help Countering Climate Change

By Agya K. Aning

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

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks with members of his team following an informal stocktaking session at the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 12, 2021. Credit: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

In a Stark Letter, and In Person, Researchers Urge World Leaders at COP26 to Finally Act on Science

By Bob Berwyn

Demonstrators join the Fridays For Future march on Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The Young Climate Diplomats Fighting to Save Their Countries

By Delger Erdenesanaa

An oil pumpjack is seen on April 16, 2021 near Eldorado, Texas. Credit: Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images

In Glasgow, COP26 Negotiators Do Little to Cut Emissions, but Allow Oil and Gas Executives to Rest Easy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People are seen gathered on George Square during a rally on Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: Peter Summers/Getty Images

At COP26, Youth Activists From Around the World Call Out Decades of Delay

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Tuvalu's Prime Minister Kausea Natano makes a national statement on the second day of the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on Nov. 2, 2021. Credit: Hannah McKay/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Nations Most Impacted by Global Warming Kept Out of Key Climate Meetings in Glasgow

By Bob Berwyn

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

By Bob Berwyn

Climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate participate in a Friday for Future student strike on Oct. 1, 2021 in Milan, Italy. Credit: Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images

Warming Trends: At COP26, a Rock Star Named Greta, and Threats to the Scottish Coast. Plus Carbon-Footprint Menus and Climate Art Galore

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden gesture during the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session during the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Over 100 Nations at COP26 Pledge to Cut Global Methane Emissions by 30 Percent in Less Than a Decade

By Phil McKenna, Marianne Lavelle

People who were forced to abandon their homes in the San Pedro Sula Valley due to floods in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta take refuge in a makeshift camp underneath an overpass in Chemelecon. Credit: Seth Sidney Berry/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

By 2050, 200 Million Climate Refugees May Have Fled Their Homes. But International Laws Offer Them Little Protection

By Moira Lavelle

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