In mountaineering, a false summit is an apparent peak below an actual one where climbers, believing they’ve reached the highest point, mistakenly turn back. In the energy policy world, where I work, ...

ICN international climate policy reporter Bob Berwyn reviews the past decade of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing region. From the Poconos to the Jersey Shore to the mouth of the Delaware Bay, what do you want to ...

This year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan kicked off with a fulsome celebration of fossil fuels, praised by the country’s president Ilham Aliyev as a “gift of God.” It ended with a climate ...

Azerbaijan's Minister for ecology and natural resources and formerly an executive at state oil company SOCAR Mukhtar Babayev (center) visits the Norm cement plant in Baku on February 23, 2023. On ...

Uncertainty is intrinsic to climate change. While the realities of the phenomenon are becoming increasingly apparent with each passing season, it is not clear just how fast or in what ways that change ...

There is something of a tautology about it: If the international process intended to fix climate change was a good one, it would have fixed climate change. As the world is gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan ...

Russia began counting emissions and land use data from Crimea in 2016, two years after it annexed the Ukrainian peninsula to widespread condemnation. For more than half a decade, Russia has used an ...

In the leadup to the 2015 Paris summit, Pope Francis issued Laudato Si, “On Care for Our Common Home,” a landmark climate and faith document that ultimately saw much of the pope’s language of human ...

Climate change is exacerbating the crisis in nature, and nature will be central to addressing climate change. Governments must put nature at the heart of climate decision-making, says WWF’s Manuel ...

New Delhi | Brazil's idea to create a new multilateral body under the UN climate regime to fast-track implementation of COP decisions has triggered cautious responses from key developed countries, ...

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for the COP30 climate talks underway in Belém, Brazil, according to an analysis by a coalition of environmental and social justice groups. The ...