For years, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with many climate experts, had high hopes for the U.N.

Extreme heat, fires and flooding—all hallmark consequences of climate change—directly influenced this year's UN climate ...

Pope Leo criticized world governments on Monday for failing so far to slow global warming and called for a stronger response ...

Countries around the world have agreed to put more money toward fighting climate change as this year’s COP30 climate summit concludes in Brazil. A formal decision released over the weekend said ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the summit in Johannesburg closed by banging a wooden gavel on a block like ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Leader after leader told the United Nations on Monday that they will do more to prevent a warming world from reaching even more dangerous levels. But as they made their pledges at ...

The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like ...

Many countries and environmentalists expressed outrage that the main cause of climate change was not included in a draft deal ...

Climate Home News rounds up a selection of views on the COP30 climate summit outcomes from politicians, top UN officials and ...

Some 25,000 climate advocates have descended on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the second African Climate Summit (ACS2) – in the face of Donald Trump’s hostile stance towards both climate science and aid ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Alice C. Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki reflects on the powerful words from her iconic 1992 Earth Summit speech in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.