More than 30,000 people will begin meeting at the United Nations' climate change conference in Egypt beginning Sunday. The yearly gathering has been going on for decades, but the bad news about ...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, have heated the planet by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since ...

Today, the United Nations offers a kind of decision memo to leaders around the world on how to address climate change. Rebecca Hersher from NPR's climate desk is here. Good morning.

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared a "code red for humanity" in a report released Monday, giving a glimpse of the world's future. And the report's statement on ...

President Joe Biden on Friday used a short visit to the United Nations climate change summit in Egypt to tell the world the United States was ready to take back its leadership role on fighting a ...

While the White House takes a sledgehammer to critical climate policy, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a ...

A UN body focused on climate change does exist. It’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It was established in 1994 and it now has near universal membership.

A U.N. report shows that big nations' fossil-fuel-boosting actions are at odds with their emissions-cutting pledges. They must do better at the COP28 climate summit.

Look, I am not a numbers person. And if I didn’t write about climate change for a living, this latest report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) wouldn’t hit the same. It says ...

Climate and Environment As they gather at U.N., world leaders face furious push to act quickly on climate change ‘We really are out of time,’ Secretary-General António Guterres warns ...

A new report from the United Nations is the most comprehensive look yet at how climate change has transformed the planet. It incorporates new research into how climate change supercharges extreme ...