In a First, Nations at Climate Summit Agree to Move Away From Fossil Fuels
Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas.
By Brad Plumer and
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Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas.
By Brad Plumer and
A road map to trim the climate footprint of food shows how hard it is to feed the world on a hotter planet.
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Outside the negotiating rooms, COP28 is part trade fair, part lobbyist jamboree and part debate tournament.
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The annual U.N. talks have brought the rare spectacle of limited protests to the politically repressive United Arab Emirates.
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Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels, Negotiators Say
The world’s leading oil exporter has become the most forceful opponent of a new agreement at the U.N. climate summit, according to people inside the talks.
By Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and
How Can Buildings Beat the Heat in a Desert City? Blend Ancient and Modern.
More architects in the United Arab Emirates, the host of this year’s U.N. climate summit, are moving past glass skyscrapers and focusing on sustainability.
By Jenny Gross and
Azerbaijan Is Expected to Host the U.N. Climate Summit in 2024
An agreement ended a monthslong deadlock in which Russia exercised veto power over countries that had criticized its invasion of Ukraine.
By Brad Plumer and
OPEC Leader Tells Members to Block Any Climate Summit Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels
In a letter, the secretary general of the oil cartel called on countries in the group to “reject any text or formula that targets energy.”
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Finding Cash for the Climate Is Tough. Two New Pledges Show Why.
Money is a very big sticking point at this year’s United Nations climate summit. Part of the problem is that American promises often go unmet.
By Lisa Friedman and
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Recent temperature rises have come uncomfortably close to a key benchmark: 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s a bad sign for the world’s climate goals, but it’s not game over. Not yet.
By Raymond Zhong
Simon Stiell used a speech in Azerbaijan to set expectations for global climate negotiations there this year.
By Max Bearak
So hot, the global average temperature exceeded the level world leaders hoped we’d stay below until 2100.
By David Wallace-Wells
Mr. Kerry, 80, is expected to work on President Biden’s re-election campaign to stress the administration’s climate achievements.
By Lisa Friedman
Mukhtar Babayev has been appointed to preside over this year’s global climate talks in Azerbaijan.
By Max Bearak
We’re now calling a future that used to terrify us “progress.”
By David Wallace-Wells
An Emirati company wants to broker a nascent market in which nations trade emission reductions even before regulations are agreed upon.
By Manuela Andreoni and Max Bearak
John Kerry said major oil-exporting countries’ willingness to acknowledge that the era of fossil fuels must come to an end underscored the “urgency” of the deal.
By Lisa Friedman
While Brazil vows to fight climate change, lawmakers approved a law making it harder for Indigenous tribes to block deforestation, overriding a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
By Flávia Milhorance and Paulo Motoryn
At the United Nations climate conference, the final statement included elements that pleased oil and gas producers.
By Stanley Reed
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