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Catherine McKenna, Canada's former minister of the environment and climate change, says some businesses are working hard to meet their net-zero pledges — but for those that aren't, they have to start backing up their talk.

As the COP27 climate talks got underway in Egypt this week, climate and energy minister Chris Bowen announced Australia would bid to co-host the annual United Nations climate summit with Pacific island nations in 2026.

Read an extract from The Journal’s climate newsletter sent straight from Egypt.

Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically in the case of democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who escalated his hunger strike his week.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry was videotaped shaking hands and chatting briefly with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt. The exchange drew critical attention on social media, given the frosty relationship between Washington and the left-wing firebrand.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt -- When it comes to helping poor nations cope with climate change, the United States government left its wallet at home. So it hopes its friend, big

Current and former Biden top climate officials said the vast majority of the summer's incentive-laden $375 billion climate-and-health spending package — by far the biggest law passed by Congress to fight global warming — was crafted in a way that will make it hard and unpalatable for future Republican Congresses or presidents to reverse it.

US climate envoy John Kerry has announced a new, controversial plan to raise cash for climate action in th...

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested he's open to peace talks with Russia, softening his refusal to negotiate with Moscow as long as President Vladimir Putin is in power, while sticking to Kyiv's core demands.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) - The world should confront climate change the way it does nuclear weapons, by agreeing to a non-proliferation treaty that stops...