Climate Treaties

UNEP Chief Inger Andersen Says it’s Easy to Forget all the Environmental Progress Made Over the Past 50 Years. Climate Change Is Another Matter

“We have to ensure that that which we leave is a comparable value or better than how we receive it,” she says. “It is so simple, yet people get so conflicted around this.”

By Katie Surma

NATO Moves to Tackle Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even While Girding Against Russia

By Marianne Lavelle

China Ramps Up Coal Power to Boost Post-Lockdown Growth

By Eleanor Olcott, The Financial Times

Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’

By Katie Surma

Can Africa Grow Without Fossil Fuels?

By David Pilling, The Financial Times

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

By Katie Surma

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

By Dan Gearino

Latest IPCC Report Marks Progress on Climate Justice

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Marianne Lavelle

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

By James Bruggers

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

By Bob Berwyn

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

By James Bruggers

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

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

By Agya K. Aning

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

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Bob Berwyn

The Young Climate Diplomats Fighting to Save Their Countries

By Delger Erdenesanaa

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

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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

By Delger Erdenesanaa