Fears of climate change are decreasing in the United States, China and many Western countries relative to other concerns, according to a new survey. War, economic hardship and disease were more ...

The notion that climate change could do more than just warm our planet or bring more intense storms might seem like science fiction, but a growing consensus among climatologists, geologists, and ...

The United States has long played an influential role in global climate diplomacy. Decades of wavering commitments have raised questions about whether the damage to the United States’ credibility as a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by ...

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The ongoing string of executive orders, federal agency actions, Congressional lawmaking and court cases relating to climate change and the clean energy transition has become one of the hard swerves in ...

World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases. By Lisa Friedman For the first time since countries began gathering 30 years ago to wrestle ...

The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference, COP30, will bring together states that are party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as thousands of experts, journalists ...

THE HAGUE, July 23 (Reuters) - The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday underlined "the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change" as it started to read out an opinion on the legal ...

Amelia Hadfield is working with environmental law researchers Rosalind Malcolm and Feja Lesniewska to explore both the political and legal implications of the ICJ's recent ruling on state behaviour at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. The ICJ was established in 1945 through the UN Charter to ...