The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off yesterday in Cancun, Mexico. Delegates from 192 nations are attending through December 10, hoping to determine a collective, international ...

Poorer nations seek billions in wealth transfers from richer nations in the name of climate change. For example, prior to the COP26 conference in Scotland in 2021, India demanded $1 trillion per year ...

The UN climate change conferences are the official meetings of the Conference of the Parties, or ‘COP’ for short. The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention ...

Biodiversity — it's climate's less glitzy twin in the unfolding environmental crisis. And just like climate, it has its own United Nations COP. This year, COP16 is happening in the tropical city of ...

Not demanding a “phase out” of fossil fuels—which over 140 nations at COP 28 pushed for—and or detailing how to transition—leaves the agreement without teeth.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has met with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks in Egypt. By Frank Jordans, Kelvin Chan, Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Science Oct 29 ...

Speaking at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - COP-16 at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on Monday evening, state environment minister Rao Narbir Singh said the AGWP, which ...

Many ideas for reforming the Conference of the Parties (COP), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s annual meetings—for instance instituting voting instead of consensus ...