COP30, climate talks
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At United Nations climate talks billed widely as having a special focus on Indigenous people, those people themselves have mixed feelings about whether the highlight reel matches reality.
The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, came to an agreement Saturday, but the final document makes no mention of fossil fuels, the primary cause of global climate change.
This week, the administration released a series of sweeping proposals to encourage oil drilling and roll back protections for wetlands and endangered species.
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later
Major oil and gas producers at the U.N. climate summit blocked a road map to curtail the use of fossil fuels, the main drivers of climate change.
Dozens of countries had called for a clear "roadmap" to transition away from the use of coal, oil and gas. The U.S. did not participate in the negotiations.
Here are five key takeaways from what some have called the "COP of truth". The most important thing to come out of COP30 is that the climate 'ship' is still afloat But many participants are unhappy that they didn't get anything close to what they wanted.