The move out of the Green Climate Fund threatens a program that has provided $19 billion to help poor nations adapt to a warming world.

Many nations surge ahead with clean energy and electric vehicles, thanks to increasingly inexpensive clean technology. In the U.S., President Trump, traditional energy interests and their business allies try to reverse climate measures and support fossil fuels.

In 2021, rich countries vowed to spend more to help poor countries adapt to warming. That goal is unlikely to be met, a new report finds. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The amount of financial assistance that rich nations give to poor ones to ...

WASHINGTON — The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with poorer small nations hit far more often than the biggest carbon-polluting countries, a study released Thursday found.

ON Saturday, Jan. 10, the world will pass an annual climate threshold colloquially referred to as “Pollutocrat Day,” which marks the point in the year at which the wealthiest 1 percent of the world’s population has already exhausted its entire “carbon budget” for the year.

Afghanistan and Bangladesh face the most significant challenges, recording the lowest climate readiness scores at 0.214 and 0.207.

Astrid R.N. Haas does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Wealthy nations fuelled their ...

But new research suggests that deforestation on a much smaller scale is just as damaging for the climate, greatly reducing the capacity of tropical rainforests absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

As a representative of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, I've found that it is not just coastlines that are increasingly underwater—but economies too. The Climate Vulnerable Forum's Vulnerable Twenty Group (CVF-V20) represents 74 climate ...