Unless host nations run climate summits in a way that accounts for the new geopolitical reality, what's agreed at COPs won't ...

Elections, international talks on plastics and shipping, and gatherings of coalitions of the willing will shape climate ...

In last week’s CCW I discussed why I thought no true progress in the effort to halt climate change will result from any agreement(s) ultimately produced at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil. I also described ...

"Complaining is not a strategy," declared the Director-General of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Simon Stiell, during the official opening of COP30. The President of Brazil, Lula da ...

A decade ago, the world got together and decided to fix the climate crisis by adopting the Paris Agreement. I remember it like yesterday. This was December 2015 at the UN climate talks in Paris. I was ...

Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That's because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of ...

This year’s U.N. climate summit, COP30, opened with a moment that should have set the tone for a new era. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared it the “COP of Truth,” rooted in the ...

This week, I have been participating in the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) here in Belem, Brazil. This is a toughened, ...

Most of the world's nations are gathering in Brazil's northern city of Belém to negotiate the ongoing response to climate change. The United Nations annual climate summit, called COP30, begins Monday ...