climate change

Extreme measures to fight the coronavirus have raised activists’ hopes for similarly drastic action on global warming. Here’s why they’re wrong.

The United States needs better insurance against attacks—whether by Mother Nature or human actors.

There’s a limit to what any one company can do when it operates within a system in which oil, gas, and even coal use are still rising.

Global warming could launch socialists to unprecedented power—and expose their movement’s deepest contradictions.

Catastrophic fires make it hard for media to stick to old narratives.

The left’s increasingly ambitious environmental agenda is rethinking the mechanics of the international economy.

Fridays for Future took foreign policy out of the hands of bureaucrats and officials in 2019. Next year, Greta Thunberg’s movement could go further.

A look at terms from India and El Salvador to South Korea and Ukraine.

The world is not doing nearly enough to fight climate change, but politicians are finally starting to pay attention.

The Netherlands is taking the lead in solving climate change—and proving that the rest of the West is doing democracy wrong.

2019 could end with a deceleration in overall carbon emissions.

Central bankers are recognizing they have the power and responsibility to fight climate change. The Bundesbank would rather not.

International threats to forcibly protect the Amazon betray ignorance about the subtle art of diplomacy.

The inquiry into Trump’s Ukraine call has sidelined some of the ongoing work at UNGA.

Her global protest movement has impressed the world with its idealism—but more important are the ways it can steer practical politics.

The U.N. General Assembly begins today with a major climate summit. Over 100 world leaders will attend, but there’s one glaring absence.

Trump to skip climate summit to focus on his Christian base.