Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the ...

COP26 President Alok Sharma attends the Closing Plenary of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images) This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global ...

Leaders from more than 120 countries will attend the major climate meeting. For the next two weeks, governments around the world will convene for a highly anticipated summit on climate change that has ...

From the outside—and sometimes from the inside also—annual U.N. climate conferences known as COPs can seem like a bunch of aimless talk. For more than three decades, the U.N. has held these ...

Depending on whom you ask, the COP26 climate summit may seem like the best of times or the worst of times. On the one hand, reports proclaim boldly that limiting global warming to below 2C might ...

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Not one country is on track to meet its goal heading into the summit. Climate change is finally at the forefront of global agendas after a year-long delay and myriad promises made since the last major ...

So how much progress has really been made in the opening days of COP26 and what are the main challenges that lie ahead? To paraphrase COP26 president Alok Sharma, this is the moment when the rubber is ...

The COP26 international commitment to sell only zero-emission vehicles is a major turning point in transportation history, but policymakers must accelerate deployment through EV standards to to have a ...