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The U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, starts in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next week, and climate change activists are pushing major emitters in developed countries to make bigger commitments at the conference. According to a recent report by the U.N. Environment Program, the international community is still falling far short of the 2015 Paris…

Doubts are surfacing over the world’s ability to meet targets to limit global warming, prompting some experts to suggest a more nuanced approach.

The good news — the end of the fossil fuel age is in sight; the bad news — it's not ending soon enough

Africa produces less than 4% of global emissions but suffers impacts through drastic weather, food insecurity, poverty

From the column: "It is easier to bend the data about disaster frequency than to bend death statistics. Death tolls tell a very clear story: People are safer from climate-related disasters than ever before."

Target strengthens ADNOC’s commitment to responsible production of lower carbon energy

What was unusual about the guys outside Twitter’s headquarters is that the media owned up to the hoax. Other hoaxes they keep insisting are true for years.

In this week's Climate Cast: Electric school buses across the country, air quality woes, upcoming elections, rising methane pollution, and holding NW Natural accountable.

Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch

GENEVA - A U.N. report warns the window for preventing a climate catastrophe is fast closing. The U.N. Environment Program’s latest Emissions Gap Report urges unprecedented cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and a rapid transformation of societies to head off the worst. The U.N. report finds the world is falling far short of the Paris…