COP26: As climate damage mounts, poor nations press wealthy to pay up

Poor nations are pressuring their wealthy counterparts at the U.N. climate summit to pay up for the mounting damage being caused by global warming, pointing to increasing powerful storms, cyclones, droughts and floods afflicting their people. The campaign being waged at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland…

Beyond coal: End to deforestation sought at COP26 climate summit

World leaders attending the COP26 U.N. climate summit should focus not only on abandoning fossil fuels but also on setting ambitious goals to end deforestation – and expand funding and rules to drive forest protection, environmentalists are urging. More than 100 world leaders have confirmed they will attend next…

How do thousands prepare for a Climate summit? with difficulty

In a few weeks, an estimated 20,000 ministers, activists and executives from nearly every country in the world are set to descend on Glasgow, Scotland, for a summit to hammer out how to make progress on climate change. And yet, the Marshall Islands chief negotiator still doesn’t know how many people from her country…