Climate Policy and Politics

COP30 in Brazil tests the 2015 climate accord at a pivotal moment.

The energy transition is not inevitable—but neither is business as usual.

At COP30, the global energy transition is moving forward without the United States.

Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.

Low-emission hydrogen is quickly becoming the latest frontier for geoeconomic competition.

Sometimes, literature meets the moment better than diplomacy.

Why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.

Brazil’s people-centered climate vision risks abandoning the most vulnerable.

The storm hit three island nations with vastly different approaches to climate adaptation.

The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.

Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.

Once-thriving crops are poorly adapting to new temperatures.

Can the carbon-negative country enrich itself without harming the planet?

Tulsi Gabbard has killed a key report for covering climate change.

Nobody knows what the impact of the world’s biggest hydropower project will be.

The U.N. forges ahead on climate and AI despite U.S. ambivalence and mixed messaging.

The U.S. leader is pressuring the world to abandon climate action. Will it work?

Artificial intelligence is not the most important part of the U.S.-China technology race, yet it receives the most attention in Washington.

Electric cars were a punchline here just a few years ago. Thanks to Chinese companies, that’s not the case anymore.

Labor strife, climate shocks, and Chiquita’s uneasy return mark a new chapter for Panama’s banana industry.

Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

As Washington turns its back on wind and solar, Beijing is racing ahead.

A meeting of rainforest countries offers a preview of COP30.

When governments are unprepared, randomness fills the void of policy.

Advances in clean energy are compensating for new construction.

Flooding disasters have intensified in recent years, and global climate aid efforts now face a setback.

After five straight years of drought, the country is running dry.

In this critical decade, Washington is ceding the field entirely.

The Chinese capital is uniquely vulnerable to weather events, especially amid climate changes.

Even as the world reels from record temperatures, the U.S. leader is spreading misinformation.

A Qatari-backed project near a coral reef pits economics against environmentalism.

Each country in the alliance offers distinct strengths.

Tibetans strongly oppose the controversial clean energy project.

Ties between Brazil and Paraguay are fraying as they renegotiate access to one of the world’s most powerful energy sources.

As the island phases out nuclear power, can it harness its vast geothermal reserves?

The November climate summit in Brazil will be Lula’s biggest diplomatic test yet.

U.S. clean tech companies face a perfect storm from tariffs and the loss of tax credits.

If Trump wants to do more than make headlines, he should help resolve the water crisis.

As of 2023, China continued to emit HFC-23 at high levels in violation of an international agreement.

After Trump administration pressure, the World Bank may make sweeping changes to global energy finance.

Bangladeshi climate refugees are streaming into India—and revealing the strained future of global migration.

In an electrified world, the reliability of the grid is everything.

How Pope Francis’s Argentine roots shaped his geopolitics.

Climate security is adjusting to a denialist U.S. administration.

Women in the country’s agricultural heartlands are migrating to the Middle East at great personal risk.

The natural disaster has struck the country at a time when it is already reeling from a humanitarian crisis.

Russia might be one of the few winners from a warming world.

Supplying the world with power will enhance U.S. security.

The numbers don’t lie: Beijing will not drive a global energy transition.

In Colombia, environmental activists are under attack despite the president’s green promises.

Politicians in Australia, the U.K., and elsewhere are obfuscating the true cost of next-generation technologies.

What do Greenland, Canada, and Ukraine have in common? Critical minerals.

A key Arctic initiative may be a way to mend relations.

On FP Live, three experts on three continents try to find the signal in the noise.

Commodity traders are among the financial world’s most ruthless actors—and now they’re at the center of climate policy.

The new administration aims to tackle immigration and foster an America First agenda.

Decades of hypocritical climate policies have failed the global south.

Norwegian oil and gas platforms are dependent on undersea electricity.

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has threated the region with tariffs and even territorial conquest.

The world is falling behind on its climate targets—but that’s not reason to give up hope.

Green transition infrastructure threatens the Sami people’s way of life in Europe’s far north.

Fossil fuel companies and countries created a deadlock in negotiations over a much-needed treaty governing their use.

Top Biden officials hope the new goal will help rally climate action at the state and local level.

Climate envoy John Podesta on why clean energy investments “are here to stay.”

As the planet warms, the people most affected still don’t qualify for protections under international law.

Spain’s leaders turned the disaster into fodder for a political blame game.

New U.S. export controls on China—and Beijing’s immediate countermeasures—have set the tone for the incoming administration.

COP29’s new goal poses a challenge to wealthy countries and international financial institutions.

The billionaire’s fast-growing Adani Green company will take an investment hit.

The agreement triples climate finance, but developing countries say it’s far from enough.

Manila is worried about Chinese maritime aggression and rising seas.

As air pollution chokes New Delhi and Lahore, officials in both countries are pointing fingers.

Five must-reads as COP29 enters full swing.

The former U.S. leader’s reelection has cast a pall over tense climate talks in Baku.

Many residents have begun to blame the government for its insufficient, delayed response.

The U.N. biodiversity summit showcased South America’s green finance ambitions.

An epidemic of land theft in Brazil has sparked an unprecedented natural disaster.

One Nigerian village shows how to develop human opportunity and protect the planet at the same time.

Microsoft’s plan to restart Three Mile Island points to the way forward.

After months of drought, fire, and flooding, climate change was virtually absent from local elections. Why?

“This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century,” U.S. President Joe Biden warned.

Beijing’s clean energy is booming—but its environmental ambitions are shrinking.

Opportunities on the Pacific Rim can kick-start a critical sector.

Robert Habeck may be deepening the social divisions over environmental policy that he always wanted to overcome.

It’s time for the ultra-rich to take responsibility for their role in the climate crisis.

Mass flooding has affected millions of people across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Western Africa, and China.

In Germany and elsewhere, the impact has been modest.

The Inflation Reduction Act was a singular achievement. So why isn’t Harris talking about it?

A policy path to address a warming climate on which both parties can agree.

Reads on the geopolitics of electric cars.

Authorities have ordered more than 5 million people to evacuate their homes as officials suspend transportation services and cancel hundreds of flights.

A new pact aims to narrow the gap between NATO partners and their competitors in icebreaker production.

And for now, the United States has few other options.

Aid to Africa and the climate conference circuit are fundamentally flawed, requiring an overhaul of the international institutions’ missions.

Can the technology give Washington the edge in a vital—and deeply competitive—industry?

It’s been a brutal summer for the region—and the effects are spreading to the rest of the world.

Central banks should stop pretending to be neutral about saving the planet.

The United States needs better tools to bolster global energy security.

As the global scramble for deep-sea minerals heats up, Leticia Carvalho wants to take charge.

For now, fossil fuel use will rise—but the defense sector can lead innovation into the next generation of low-carbon sources.

The region’s worst typhoon this season leaves mass flooding, shipwrecks, and a potentially devastating oil spill in its wake.