President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was long overdue.
Unless host nations run climate summits in a way that accounts for the new geopolitical reality, what's agreed at COPs won't ...
In last week’s CCW I discussed why I thought no true progress in the effort to halt climate change will result from any agreement(s) ultimately produced at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil. I also described ...
Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That's because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of ...
In 1992, countries around the globe agreed on an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...
Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to 10 times more carbon than average internet pages, according to a new study. As this year's United Nations climate summit kicks off in Brazil, ...
This week, I have been participating in the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) here in Belem, Brazil. This is a toughened, ...
If you paid any attention at all to COP 30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference held last month in Belem, Brazil, you probably know about what didn’t happen: the United States refused to send ...
Three decades of COPs and we’re still asking the same question: has any of this actually changed the world, or are we just adding more hot air in the environment? COP30 arrives with a familiar sense ...
Trillions of dollars spent to fight climate change are being wasted worrying about meaningless, metric: global mean surface ...
Re “We’re blowing past our climate goals. Now what?”: Taken together, much of the commentary in the Jan. 11 Ideas section ...