Environment

The financial sector’s role in managing risk and accelerating the transition to net-zero

Unprecedented smog in the “city of gardens” comes from a confluence of familiar factors.

The Canadian system is a promising—and politically palatable—prototype for other large emitters.

How to make sense of the new global trend that grants legal rights to animals, plants, and rivers.

The COP26 deforestation commitment is disingenuous—and could harm the Congo Basin.

Groups like the G-7 are putting proactive governance back on the agenda.

After two weeks of intense climate negotiations, here’s where progress was made—and where negotiations fell short.

As soaring fuel inflation turns into a political risk, Biden needs a smarter energy policy fast.

The agreement is the most impressive thing to come out of the COP26 climate summit.

Environmental disasters are rapidly engulfing the world. Can bureaucracy meet their pace?

Environmental activists are afraid of angering Beijing.

The race is on to tell—or sell—the right story about global warming.

Climate apocalypse still looms while world leaders haggle over haggis in Glasgow.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has short-term goals and long-term ambitions.

Past conservation efforts have floundered. Latin American nations will decide whether the new pact succeeds.

At COP26, developed-world governments are working to keep the global south poor.

Some of FP’s best arguments on ways forward for the world.

The idea that appeasing Beijing can save the planet is a fantasy.