Global carbon emissions hit record high driven by surging power sector
Energy-related CO2 emissions rose 1.7% to 33.1 billion tons from the previous year, the highest rate of growth since 2013.
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Energy-related CO2 emissions rose 1.7% to 33.1 billion tons from the previous year, the highest rate of growth since 2013.
Climate protests organized in 2,083 cities across 125 nations made for one of the world's biggest ever demonstrations.
U.N. Environment's global assessments are a touchstone among scientists, policy experts and decision makers.
Dire environmental challenges and climate change took center stage at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering.
The poll's findings ran counter to the well-publicized sound and fury of dozens of populist leaders or political parties in North America, Europe, South America and Asia.
António Guterres called for greater diplomacy, more climate ambition, better use of technology, more focus on the U.N.'s 17 major goals for 2030 and a renewal of foundational values.
The Trump administration's broadsides against international cooperation embolden nations with poor human rights records and encourage attacks on journalists, experts said.
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
Japan will leave the International Whaling Commission, which will drop to 88 members, and resume whaling in April.
Their strikes were not affiliated with any political party, but they helped rally support for efforts by international organizations to promote global cutbacks in carbon emissions.
Negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations must report their greenhouse gas emissions.
The summit is supposed to work out a "rulebook" for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
As 200 nations gathered for climate talks, international health experts reported the slow pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions puts lives and health care systems at risk.
The Group of 20's final communiqué expressed concern about the future direction of the World Trade Organization, which U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to leave.
The trade deal fulfills U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
Global greenhouse gas emissions, rather than fall, rose in 2017 by 0.7 gigatons to 53.5 gigatons, after three years of decreases.