This statement is meant to shift the international response to the rise in sea level driven by humans from fragmented initiatives to sustained, coordinated and adequately-funded action. It comes as ...

Ahead of a major UN summit, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Brussels demanding greater action to ...

Climate change is a harmful global problem, and addressing it would benefit every country. But taking collective global action is challenging. While climate change affects us all, its causes and ...

Countries must urgently scale up their commitments to keep temperature rises within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) to limit the impacts of extreme weather, a statement from a conference ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to scrap a rule that allows shareholders to formally petition companies, ...

How much of a $450 pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, and how much would you keep for yourself? That was the question posed in a recent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the global energy transition and net-zero emissions. The climate crisis is no longer a future concern; it is a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new European commission aimed at providing health sector solutions to what it called one of the defining health challenges of our time: climate ...

On December 12, 2015, the 195 country parties to the United Nations’ climate body adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change. The accord was historic, sending a message to governments, boardrooms, ...

A win for the oil and gas companies at the Supreme Court could shut down dozens of similar cases filed in recent years.

As awareness of climate change has grown, activists and policymakers have sought to drive global action to address the worldwide issue. Beginning in the 1960s, a blossoming environmental protection ...