It's been three decades of COP talks - and as most of the climate metrics get worse, questions about whether the summits are working have become impossible to ignore. This year, approximately 40,000 ...

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for the COP30 ...

Bonn 2026 climate talks end in deadlock, exposing deep divides over finance, trade and implementation ahead of COP31. Can multilateral climate diplomacy still deliver meaningful action?

The legitimacy of COP31 presidency rests on capability, fairness, and inclusivity—principles to which Türkiye points in ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wave after a bilateral meeting within the framework of the COP30 UN climate conference in Belem, Brazil. Photo by ...

After hosting the last climate summit, the South American country raised doubts about the 30-year-old paradigm based on consensus. Brazil, the host of last year’s COP30 climate summit, is pushing for ...

Nearly three decades after the first UN climate conference, emissions are still rising. The global system for tackling climate change is broken—it's slow, cumbersome and undemocratic. We urgently need ...

Leaders at London Climate Action Week call for faster clean energy transition, resilience planning and renewed climate ...

With few signs that 30 years of United Nations climate talks have significantly slowed the pace of the greenhouse gas emissions warming the climate, calls to revamp the negotiations have grown louder, ...