Climate politics and the bottom line — CBS News poll

For many years, addressing climate change has been framed, at least in political debates, as one that carries an economic tradeoff: Could we afford to do it, even if we think it's otherwise a good ... Read More

Paving the Road to Paris? What the EU Can Do to Facilitate A Political Climate Deal

This Strategic Update asks what the EU can do to influence ... role in the global climate community. Olivia Gippner is the Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow on EU-East Asia relations at LSE IDEAS. She ... Read More

What a years-long probe of Big Oil reveals about its climate strategy

Exxon downplayed Paris agreement climate targets, according to documents, while others privately were skeptical of achieve their “net zero” commitments. Read More

Climate Leaders Debate Goal for Controlling Global Warming

A new U.N. program highlights the disconnect between climate messaging and the growing possibility of overshooting a key global warming threshold ... Read More

Climate and Environment

By Catrin Einhorn Around the world, grass-roots organizers ... What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small. Read More

Money and politics put world’s biggest climate deal at risk

Parties have yet to agree on governance, baseline data or the funding required to curb greenhouse emissions and wean the world ... the climate package is known, into reality. “Once we do ... Read More

World News

A Hamas leader said it was studying Israel’s latest proposal for a deal with ... to rebuild the Paris cathedral after the devastating fire in 2019. Having a team in the world’s richest sports ... Read More

Renewable Energy Investment Not Enough to Reach Paris Climate Target

Despite record renewables investments, which hit as much as $622.5 billion in 2023, the world is still far from what is needed to meet the climate ... the Paris Agreement goals alive. “We ... Read More

Grown-ups are not taking climate change seriously

Todd Stern was former US president Barack Obama ... while an unusually granular study showed climate damages could reach $38 trillion (€35.6 trillion) a year by 2050. We live in a world ... Read More

Michelle Obama says Beyoncé's ‘Cowboy Carter’ album is a reminder to vote

"Together, we can stand up for what we believe in, and we must do that at the ballot box this year," Obama added ... healthcare and climate change. And as Queen Bey says at the end of Ya Ya ... Read More

Lede Stories

Actress and TIME Earth Award honoree Jane Fonda urged Americans to leverage their voting power to make politicians care about the climate crisis. The judge overseeing the former president's ... Read More