Global World News How Is The World Doing On Climate Change Not Great

The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what?

The Emissions Gap Report 2025 reveals that says that global temperatures are on track to exceed the most ambitious end of the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Read More

Trump administration skips COP30 climate summit, leaving California's Newsom to hurl criticism from Brazil

The Trump administration sent nobody to the U.N. global climate summit, leaving California Governor Gavin Newsom to ask, "What the hell is going on here?" ... Read More

The Future of Climate Progress Is Being Built in the Global South

For the countries now driving the global climate transition, progress hinges on finance. Developing countries need about $1.3 trillion a year in external finance by 2035, only around 1% of global GDP. Read More

Tackling Climate Change Without the U.S.

This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil. So far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending. Read More

What Global Climate Action Looks Like at COP30 Without the U.S.

Greetings from São Paulo where corporate executives from around the world have gathered ahead of this year’s United Nations climate talks—known as COP30. This is my second stop in a two-week trip to ... Read More

At UN climate summit, world leaders say time is running short to stop the worst effects of warming

World leaders warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change, and blasted the United States for its retreat from those efforts ... Read More

Leaders at the Global Climate Summit Highlight the Rising Toll of Warming

Instead, with heat-trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continuing to rise, the world is on track to warm by roughly 2.8 degrees Celsius. Scientists have said that ... Read More

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ... Read More

Climate change is turning global wildfires into monsters

Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world's weather systems it's getting harder and more important to get right. And the behavior of ... Read More

With warning lights flashing red, the world needs climate plans that will stick

As the September deadline for updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) passed, only 29 countries had submitted their plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Now, on ... Read More