There’s no dressing it up: Year one of Joe Bidenthe presidency ends badly. The fresh humiliation of failing to get a suffrage law through the Senate arrived amid rising inflation and the number of COVID cases; meanwhile, Build Back Better, another signature legislative initiative from … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article Researchers have lacked a critical factor in estimating the economic consequences of climate change – rainy days – according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. “Several rainy days: it’s bad for the economy,” said Leonie Wenz, … Read More

GLASGOW – A proposed agreement for the COP26 climate negotiations deplores countries’ inability to adjust their targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and urges them to make new promises by 2022. That text was released Wednesday morning. It sets in motion a … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article GLASGOW – The first week of COP26 ended with a dizzying and inconsistent series of promises – now the challenge is to track exactly where it leaves the pressure to tackle climate change. Instead of creating an overall … Read More

GLASGOW – Campaigns from wealthy western countries are attacking climate solutions such as carbon markets, which poorer countries see as economically important, Rwanda’s environment minister told POLITICO. Friday is “youth and public empowerment day” at COP26, and activist Greta Thunberg was to speak at a … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article GLASGOW – The real work has started at the COP26 climate conference – and it’s about confronting the carbon cheaters. World leaders dominated the first few days at the Glasgow summit, but attention is now focused on negotiations … Read More

GLASGOW – The European Union and the United States have launched a landmark promise to cut emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, a commitment that can prevent 0.2-degree global warming. Alliance members will seek to reduce global emissions of methane – the second largest … Read More

GLASGOW – The US has once again joined a group of countries pushing for higher targets at the UN COP26 climate negotiations. The return of the world’s second largest emitter and richest nation boosts the group, called the High Ambition Coalition, which is an informal … Read More

GLASGOW – COP26 The UN climate negotiations today gave delegates a welcome of cows, cold and confusion. With increased security, as more than 100 world leaders gathered to speak at the summit, thousands of diplomats, journalists and activists were left in long queues to enter … Read More

Chinese President Xi Jinping will not speak in person or video to the UN climate negotiations COP26, and will instead send a note. The head of the country responsible for almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions will address the Glasgow Conference in writing … Read More