Nearly 200 countries adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact in Scotland on Saturday at talks known as COP26, after nearly two weeks of wrangling on everything from how much to limit global warming, what to ...

The Glasgow conference was praised as a huge step forward in tackling climate change, but also drew criticism for not going far enough. Between 31 October and 12 November 2021, Glasgow hosted the 26th ...

The U.N. climate summit ended with calls on governments to return next year with tougher pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Nations made new pledges on methane gas pollution, deforestation, ...

COP26 President Alok Sharma receives applause after giving the closing speech as he attends the Closing Plenary of the COP26 Climate Summit at SECC on Nov. 13, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Jeff J ...

A protestor at the podium outside plenary halls at the close of COP26 on Nov. 13 in Glasgow, Scotland. A protestor at the podium outside plenary halls at the close of COP26 on Nov. 13 in Glasgow, ...

GLASGOW, Scotland — An asteroid would focus the mind better. An alien invasion might summon total cooperation. A deadly pandemic is messier, but at least we have clear protocols: diagnose, vaccinate, ...

JUST days after it was agreed on by nearly 200 countries at the COP26 summit in November, the reverberations of the Glasgow Climate Pact were being felt. In the immediate aftermath of the conference, ...

LATE IN THE afternoon of Saturday November 13th, when the COP26 climate talks were nearly 24 hours into overtime, the European Commission’s vice president, Frans Timmermans, took the floor. He worried ...

From being “5-1 down to climate change” to climate talks being in a “rolling maul”, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sport on his mind during COP26, so it’s fitting that sport featured more ...

At the opening of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, US President Joe Biden called the climate crisis an “existential threat to human existence as we know it.” “So let this be the moment that we answer ...

The announcement comes several hours after the scheduled Friday evening deadline. Delegates had struggled to resolve major sticking points, such as phasing out coal, fossil fuel subsidies and ...