COP26 President Alok Sharma attends the Closing Plenary of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images) This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global ...

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Depending on whom you ask, the COP26 climate summit may seem like the best of times or the worst of times. On the one hand, reports proclaim boldly that limiting global warming to below 2C might ...

The COP26 international commitment to sell only zero-emission vehicles is a major turning point in transportation history, but policymakers must accelerate deployment through EV standards to to have a ...

Not one country is on track to meet its goal heading into the summit. Climate change is finally at the forefront of global agendas after a year-long delay and myriad promises made since the last major ...

Samoan climate activist Brianna Fruean, 23, addressed world leaders at the opening of COP26. In the first of a series of first-person accounts from the Glasgow summit, she describes what it felt like ...

A month after the U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26, politicians, analysts and climate action advocates are taking stock of what was agreed to. And the consensus is ...

Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit. The document says vulnerable nations must ...

A draft agreement being circulated at the United Nations climate summit that's underway in Scotland calls on countries to phase out coal power and to flesh out deeper cuts in carbon emissions by next ...

Cop26 has finally begun in Glasgow, Scotland, a year on from its postponement because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hosted by the UK under the presidency of former business secretary Alok Sharma and in ...

Boris Johnson apologises to Israeli minister Karine Elharrar for her not gaining access to COP26 in her wheelchair on Monday. Boris Johnson has apologised to an Israeli minister who was unable to ...

World leaders assembled for a group photo at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Members of the Royal Family have joined world leaders for a dinner reception at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and ...