Africa aspires to major role in the effort to combat climate change
African leaders say they have a market-based plan to fight human-caused global warming that will spread economic development among millions of people on the continent.
African leaders say they have a market-based plan to fight human-caused global warming that will spread economic development among millions of people on the continent.
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization agreed on some policies but not a unified goal to end deforestation.
Increasing rice prices from India's ban “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swath of the world population."
Scottish energy expert Jim Skea said it's important not to despair over the 'existential threat' from rising temperatures.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
Mining the deep seas: The best way forward to a green energy transition, or a looming environmental disaster?
Speakers blamed major economies for a system that puts profits over fighting poverty and caring for the planet.
The treaty body that gets the worst cooperation is the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Delegates in Geneva were able to muster a non-binding report that essentially prolongs a decade-old geopolitical impasse.
There's a growing industry and more tools for producing and distributing disinformation. Meanwhile, authorities are getting more aggressive and hostile toward journalists.
The commemoration is not meant to be a look solely into the past; the idea is to preserve and teach an ugly chapter of history that might help ward off humanity’s worst impulses.
The U.S. became the first nation to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, jeopardizing efforts at curbing the worst impacts of global warming this century.
Global coronavirus cases topped 30 million with 944,000 deaths, with the U.S., India, Brazil and Russia accounting for about half of the pandemic.
Humans are trashing the planet so fast it would take 1.7 "Earths" to regenerate all the biological resources used up from 2011 to 2016, a U.N. treaty reported.
More than 30 nations pledged to help 10 international organizations raise US$35 billion for fast-tracking coronavirus tests, medicines and vaccines.
WADA said it will consider amending its rules to prevent the United States from jeopardizing the global anti-doping system.