Nearly two years have passed since France’s then-foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, struck his gavel and declared: “The Paris Agreement for the climate is...
In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, more than 150 governments submitted plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030.
The lives of billions of people, for centuries to come, will be at stake when world leaders and government negotiators meet at the United Nations Climate...
When it comes to climate change, the world has reached a point of no return.
This December, world leaders will meet in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where they will hammer out a comprehensive agreement to...
In 1961, when the United States was faced with the threat of falling behind the Soviet Union in the space race, President John F. Kennedy called for a program...
It is impossible to know whom American voters will choose as their next president.
Energy has become a focal point of global policymaking.
It is easy to be skeptical about the kind of meetings that U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and a small army of other global and...
At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, world leaders at last seemed to recognize the reality of climate change.
The last-minute deal struck at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, offers a glimmer of hope for the future not just of...
This month, the Global Climate Action Summit – one of the largest international gatherings on climate change the world has seen – will be held in San Francisco.
After the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen concluded without an agreement on climate action, mayors around the world developed...
For many of the world’s economies, financial markets, heads of government and carbon policies, 2018 did not end well. The scars of the global financial crisis...