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Paris Agreement

A person in all black walks past a logo at the media center ahead of the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit.
Environment
Confidence in UN climate talks at a low point ahead of COP28 in Dubai
firefighters in a line
Climate Change
The world kept warming in 2022. Is the 1.5-degree Celsius target within reach?
Climate activists hold a demonstration through the venue of the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 12, 2021. Negotiators from almost 200 nations were making a fresh push to reach agreements on a series of key issues that would allow them t
Climate Change
COP26 made incremental progress but failed to deliver on ‘transformational’ change, negotiators say 
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, demonstrates with others in front of the Standard and Chartered Bank during a climate protest in London, Oct. 29, 2021. People were protesting in London ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), which
Climate Change
Why COP26 is the ‘last, best hope’ for fighting climate change 
In this Sept. 2, 2021, file photo provided by the US Department of State, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry attends a meeting with Yang Jiechi, director of China's Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs
Climate Change
US Climate Envoy John Kerry heads to China with a ‘clean energy revolution’ message, adviser says
A man victoriously holds up a piece of paper and smiles as other people around him also smile
The Big Fix
Climate activists get more strategic with their use of the courts
Joe Biden climate executive action
Biden administration
Biden vows to take a ‘whole of government’ approach to climate change
Joe Biden inauguration
Environment
Biden brings US back to Paris climate accord. Now what?
The bust of French statesman Robert Schuman, one of the founders of the European Union, is seen while environmental activists launch a hot air balloon during a demonstration outside of an EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 10, 2020.
Climate Change
5 years into Paris agreement, net-zero pledges are boosting optimism
Joe Biden sitting next to John Kerry at an event in 2015
US politics
How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership
Standing in a grassy field, Joe Biden speaks about climate change during a campaign event held outside the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware, Sept. 14, 2020.
Climate Change
The world is watching: 2020 US election will have a big impact on global climate politics
A large coal processing plant is shown from above with several smokestacks billowing emmissions.
Climate Change
China, top global emitter, aims to go carbon-neutral by 2060
Young climate change activists sit with activist Greta Thunberg in a huddle at the climate talks in Madrid.
Climate Change
Marathon climate talks in Madrid end with disappointment
Protesters wear yellow jackets and sign that speak of climate emergency in Spanish language
Climate Change
Activists enraged by slow pace of climate diplomacy in Madrid
A woman stands and speaks at a podium
Climate Change
As US steps back on climate change, will EU and China take the lead?
A person with white face paint and red robes stands near man in black uniform
Climate Change
4 things to watch at the climate talks in Madrid
Dozens of birds are shown flying next to large electricity pylons on a smoggy afternoon.
Climate Change
Global temperature rises could bring ‘destructive’ effects, UN says
climate rally
Nov. 4 is the first day Trump can legally leave the Paris Accord
A California car smog check center is seen in Los Angeles with an American flag
Climate Change
Top US leadership is ‘missing ingredient’ in climate change action
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
Climate Change
Why 2020 is a key year for climate action
world leaders at the G20 Summit
Climate Change
Climate crisis? What climate crisis? US blocked consensus on climate action at G20.
Paris Climate Agreement 2015
Climate Change
The next UN Climate Change Summit aims to push the world to do more and do it faster
Wind turbines Morocco
Climate Change
Almost all countries have fallen short on climate change commitments
A man wearing googles holds up a sign that says "stop fossil fuel! there is no border in the sky!"
Climate Change
The world struck a major climate deal in Poland. So, what’s in it?
COP 24 session in Katowice, Poland
Climate Change
The Trump administration continues to undercut its own climate report
a closeup of California Governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown
Environment
California emerges as a leader at climate summit
The Marshall Islands are made up of an archipelago of islands that sit not that far from the current sea level, as evidenced by this photo of the Jaluit Atoll Lagoon.
Climate Change
Documentary chronicles climate change through three children growing up in the Marshall Islands
A child stands in front of a herd of cows in Samburu County in Kenya, one of the many tropical countries that would have a larger hit to its overall gross domestic product if the overall global temperature continues to steadily rise. Climate change has le
Limiting temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius could result in $30 trillion of savings for global economy, study shows
Members of environmental groups hold up banners calling for renewable energy at the United Nations climate talks that took place in Bonn, Germany in 2015. Bonn was the site of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2017, in which co
Climate Change
As latest UN climate change summit looms, delegates have plenty of work to do
climate demonstrators
Global Politics
What’s it like to be an American at the UN climate talks?
The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words "Paris Agreement is Done
Environment
With Nicaragua’s signature, US and Syria are the last holdouts from the Paris climate agreement
climate report
Economics
Report: Fossil fuel companies face big loses as world transitions to low-carbon economy
Coal-fired power plants like this one in Wyoming are among the largest sources of climate-altering pollution in the US, and had been targets of Obama administration rules to significantly cut US emissions under the Paris Climate agreement. President Trump
Economics
Pulling out of Paris, Trump says climate deal ‘punishes the United States.’ Really?
India solar panels
Environment
As Trump takes office, India remains a question mark in international climate action
Tillerson pic
Environment
Tillerson hedges on climate science, but supports Paris agreement
Moroccan security stand guard in front of the entrance of the UN Climate Change Conference 2016 (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, November 14, 2016.
Election 2016
Climate momentum will continue: US envoy on Trump vote
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (C), president-designate of the UN climate summit, and Christiana Figueres (L), executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, celebrate during the final session of the World Climate Change Con
Environment
The Paris climate deal won’t save the world, but it does give us a chance