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10 years after the Paris Agreement, countries are still missing climate deadlines
Meanwhile, emissions have continued to rise since the landmark treaty was signed.
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The ‘Green Revolution’ transformed global agriculture. Now it’s adapting to climate change.
The same techniques that fed the exploding global population of the 20th century are being used to adapt agriculture to one of the most serious threats of the 21st.
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Trump axes climate reporting program, ignoring international courts and frontline communities
“There is an international responsibility here, even if the U.S. still tries to deny that there is one."
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In Georgia, Trump’s immigration agenda and clean energy jobs are colliding
Expert foreign workers are key to setting up new factories in the U.S. An ICE raid targeting them could hurt efforts to ramp up American manufacturing.
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Report: Big businesses are doing carbon dioxide removal all wrong
The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of emissions reductions.
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The International Seabed Authority’s war with itself
As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the important questions unanswered.
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‘Consensus kills ambition’: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement
Procedural hurdles once again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.
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Health was supposed to be central to the UN plastics treaty. Now it’s up for debate.
Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.
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Plastic pollution is toxic and everywhere. Now, legal experts say it’s a human rights violation.
This week, they’re advocating for a U.N. treaty to safeguard people’s basic rights.
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How climate change endangers mothers and children
Rising temperatures are rewriting the earliest stages of life, according to a new report.