On June 8, leaders from the largest advanced economies will gather for the annual G-7 summit to discuss the most pressing challenges the world faces.
As U.S. President Donald Trump translates his “America First” strategy into import tariffs and the European Union prepares to adopt countermeasures moving the...
The world’s leading democracy, the United States, is looking increasingly like the world’s biggest and oldest surviving autocracy, China.
With President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States will begin reimposing sanctions against Iran, the short, strange life of the 2015 Iran...
Governments made slow progress on a "rule book" for a global climate accord after two weeks of talks ending Thursday and agreed to a new round of negotiations...
Just as U.S. President Donald Trump reached one hand out to North Korea, he yanked the other back from Iran.
Tourism is responsible for a twelfth of world greenhouse gas emissions, and a vacation boom is complicating a global drive to slow climate change, scientists...
Carbon emissions from burning oil, coal and gas rose in most European Union countries in 2017, data showed Friday, in a sign the bloc was struggling to reduce...
From smuggled timber to trafficked eels, policing agencies pledged on Friday to ramp up their efforts to curb environmental crimes estimated to cost billions...
European Union carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels increased in 2017, statistics office Eurostat said Friday, indicating that the reduction of...
For centuries, France and the United States have been friends, allies and competitors.
Front-line negotiators from more than 190 nations gathering for climate talks in Bonn on Monday face a daunting task: bring the 2015 Paris Agreement to life.
Climate change, cuisine and defence will be on the menu next week when French President Emmanuel Macron visits Australia.
Cities, which produce about 70 percent of carbon emissions, are driving green reforms and will be key to tackling climate change, the United Nations' climate...
Praising the strength of America's oldest alliance, President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House Tuesday with a...
Former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg on Sunday promised $4.5 million to fulfill the United States's commitment to the...
Listening to some Arab delegates at international conferences, you would think they came from an alien planet.
The boldest plan to achieve the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement comes from China.
Chinese solar power led a record 157 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity added worldwide last year, more than double the amount of new generation...
Poland became Thursday the final EU country to enact a bill ratifying the global agreement intended to provide a legal framework for reducing carbon...