On September 23, US President Donald Trump used his address to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly to question the organisation’s purpose. He is not alone; leaders worldwide have asked the ...

China’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say ...

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When the 2015 Paris Agreement was inked nearly a decade ago, it marked a consensus, agreed to by nearly all the countries in ...

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Hardly a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed his “Global Governance Initiative,” Beijing made its intent clear at the most global of forums — that it should, and is ...

The administration is opening millions of additional acres of public land to mining while slashing royalty rates and ...

The deal would allow the government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company developing one of the world's largest ...

Oil is of course a cyclical commodity, and prices rise and fall over time, but this time the decline is structural. A recent ...

Australia has a new climate target: cutting emissions by 62%–70% below 2005 levels by 2035. Meeting even the lower end means ...

The Trump administration is moving to lift a Biden-era ban on coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, a region of rolling ...