As 2018 came to a close, urgency to tackle climate change intensified.  The year was marked by the publication of a landmark scientific report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Following two tension-filled weeks at the UN climate talks in Poland, countries finally agreed on the operating manual to implement the Paris Agreement. While this rulebook is essential to kick-sta...

For most of us, the UN climate talks — or COP24 — are drawing to a close and home is in sight. That’s probably not the case for hundreds of negotiators who still have a lot to sort out before they...

Energy minister Claire Perry apologised to international observers after being repeatedly interrupted by four climate protesters during an event in which she announced the UK had formally requested...

Should fossil fuel companies that knew their products contributed to climate change for nearly 40 years and did nothing about it now be allowed to have their say inside the UN climate talks? For ...

Campaigners disrupted a US event promoting “greener and cleaner” fossil fuel energy at the UN climate talks, calling it “a farce” that had no place within the global climate negotiations process. ...

For the first time, the future of coal workers and communities across the world has become one of the most pressing issues of the global climate negotiations — infusing a sense of social reality wi...

More than a thousand people marched amidst heavy police presence to demand negotiators and ministers attending the UN climate talks in the southern Polish city of Katowice take more ambitious actio...

A Polish trade union has issued a joint statement with a notorious American climate science denial group rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change. The statement, signed by the Chicago...

The UN climate talks are often portrayed as an exclusive and inaccessible place in which ordinary people's voices are rarely heard. As the clock to prevent catastrophic climate change ticks away, t...