ABC News - 3 hours 33 min ago
The United Nations' annual climate talks are pushing into overtime under a cloud of anger and disappointment as negotiators are well short of a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change...
ABC News - 10 hours 13 min ago
A new draft of a deal on money to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday afternoon at the United Nations climate summit pledged $250 billion annually by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones...
NPR - 10 hours 53 min ago
Since the Taliban took power 2021, Afghanistan has not been invited to big climate conferences. And money for projects addressing climate-related issues has been frozen. Are things about to change?...
Forbes - 11 hours 39 min ago
As world leaders conclude the annual U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan, its neighbor Iran, a top polluter, has yet to present a plan to tackle climate change.
Financial Times - 13 hours 41 min ago
Independent expert group says amount falls short of $390bn a year needed by 2035 to deal with effects of global warming...
Newsweek - 13 hours 46 min ago
More than a third of the U.S. suffers from drought conditions, with 3.68 percent under "extreme drought."...
The Nation - 13 hours 57 min ago
Peter Kuper The opportunity is melting away. The post Acting on Climate Change? appeared first on The Nation .
New York Times - 15 hours 42 min ago
Fires and punishing heat in a suburb of Chennai, India, in May.
Newsweek - 16 hours 19 min ago
Reservoirs exacerbate climate change, harm ecosystems and fall short as a solution to the state's water crisis, the report says.
Forbes - 16 hours 29 min ago
As policy makers compete for the high ground on the global challenge of climate change, wine growers wrestle with the realities of real life.
The Verge - 17 hours 4 min ago
Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge A tentative proposal to tax cryptocurrency mining to raise funds for climate action took off during a United Nations climate conference that's set to come to a close today. A levy on energy-hungry crypto mining, at $0.045 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity used, could generate $5.2 billion in revenue annually, according to a report released last week by the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, led by Kenya, Barbados, and France. The Bitcoin network is estimated...
Los Angeles Times - 18 hours 55 min ago
The COP29 climate summit ending Friday was dispiriting in many respects, as is the broader picture. But there's hope and good reason to persist in this effort.
ABC News - 21 hours 17 min ago
The Bahamas says it will refinance $300 million of its external debt to free up more than $120 million for marine conservation projects and climate change mitigation...
NPR - 21 hours 25 min ago
As a new Trump administration signals a retreat on climate action, China is stepping up. China is the biggest producer of climate technologies like electric vehicles and solar panels.
Fortune - 21 hours 56 min ago
Trade wars make it harder to coordinate when dealing with everything from climate change to cybercrimes not to mention war, disease, and innovation.
NPR - 22 hours 40 min ago
Trump picks Pam Bondi as nominee for AG after Matt Gaetz withdraws, Russia's Putin takes an even more aggressive stance, and looking the connection between climate change and atmospheric river storms.
Sky News - 22 hours 40 min ago
An eleventh hour proposal from a UN climate summit to channel $250bn to developing nations has fallen far short of the $1.3trn they need to cope with climate change.