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If high-stakes climate talks are to succeed next month in Glasgow, the initial signs of progress may emerge this weekend when leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies hold their first face-to ...
Gov. Newsom and state leaders are going to an international conference to make a statement on California climate change policy.
A scientific meeting set up by G8 chair Tony Blair concluded that climate change was a "clear and present danger" – but have the politicians heard the message?
The Center for American Progress releases a series of papers on climate change in advance of this week’s G8 summit.
The G8 summit in Japan may be remembered as the moment when the world’s most powerful leaders finally reached a united position on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
William Drozdiak, an expert on transatlantic politics, says a major issue at the upcoming G8 meeting will be pressure on Washington to accept limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
So, as Halloween arrives amid the U.N. Climate Change Conference this year, leaders should ditch the Grim Reaper costumes and don more reasonable attire.
The president attended the annual conference in 2021 and 2022, but officials say this year he is preoccupied with the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.
The G8 needs to address the discrepancies between its recognition of a danger threshold of a two degrees centigrade or less rise in average global temperatures and the world’s current course towards a ...
The G8's "historic" agreement to halve greenhouse gas emisisons by 2050 in L'Aquila, Italy this week was immediately condemned by green groups as "vague" and insufficient to halt global warming in ...
People sit inside the media room inside the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, Scotland on Oct. 31, 2021, the venue of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference.
Differing views on the need for intermediate emissions reduction targets emerged over the weekend (24-26 May) between G8 environment ministers, who pledged to work on a deal to halve greenhouse ...