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United Nations Climate Change Conference

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
The view of banners for the UN climate conference COP26 displayed in central Glasgow, Scotland
Energy
Glasgow summit pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies faces an uphill battle
A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa
Climate Change
World leaders agree to help South Africa phase out coal
Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil.
Climate Change
World leaders pledged to end forest loss. What will it take?
Pastoralists and their livestock at one of the few functioning boreholes in Marsabit County, Kenya. Community leaders organize when people and their animals can drink from the borehole, Nov. 3, 2021.`
Climate Change
Who will pay for ‘losses and damages’ caused by climate change? Developing countries make their case at COP26.
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 
President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Washington.
Climate Change
Biden’s Earth Day summit tests US, global commitment to slowing climate change
Building reads "climate emergency" with flares of red and orange hues on the front of the building
Climate Change
UN climate chief on coronavirus and climate change: We must ‘address these two fundamental, existential crises together’
A person holds a replica of a burning globe in the air with fake flames coming out of it.
The Big Fix
‘The mother of all injustices is climate change,’ says former diplomat and climate change leader
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 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
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?
Attenborough speaks at the podium in Poland's climate change talks.
David Attenborough: Global warming is ‘our greatest threat’
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
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, climate change envoy of the United Arab Emirates, hold up signs that read, "I'm for Climate Action", in English and Arabic, at a joint press conference in Abu Dhabi.
Environment
There was no big agreement, but plenty of progress at the UN Climate Summit
obama COP 15
Environment
Did NSA spying give the US an edge at the Copenhagen climate conference?
Environment
Climate conference promises non-binding
Environment
Frustrated climate chief calls it quits
After the Durban Climate Conference
UN Reaches Climate Deal in Durban, South Africa
Durban Climate Conference
2011 Durban Climate Change Conference
Bonn Climate Change Talks
Global Warming Negotiations on Hold
UN Climate Negotiators Meet in China
China Rising
Climate Deal in Copenhagen?
Environment
Copenhagen summit heats up in final days
Environment
Countering Copenhagen carbon with kilns
Environment
‘Danish text’ hurting Copenhagen climate talks
Environment
From China, watching Copenhagen
Global Politics
Copenhagen climate conference begins
Global Politics
China in Copenhagen
Global Politics
Climate deal might have to wait
Global Politics
President Obama will go to Copenhagen