“ Because there will be a transition that will occur over a long period of time.” The agreement reached at COP26 prompts countries to move away from fossil fuels at a faster pace and to bolster climate targets.... Coal production in China, the world’s largest consumer of coal, has surged to the highest levels in years as the country addresses power outages. Australia is the second-biggest coal exporter and fifth-biggest producer.... The main countries that buy coal from Australia are Japan, In

UNITED NATIONS( NYTIMES)-When some 200 scientists convened by the United Nations all but demanded on Monday( Aug 9) that the nations immediately band together to cut emissions, they portrayed it as a brief window to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. But as their call ricocheted around the planet, it only underscored the challenge ahead: getting the world's biggest polluters and its most vulnerable countries to cooperate against a grave global threat.In unequivocal terms, the

This combination of 2020-2021 photos shows, from left, a burning tree in Sequoia National Forest, California; Nathan Fabre, whose home and boat were destroyed by Hurricane Ida in Lafitte, Louisiana; and the cracked, dry bottom of the Cerro Lagoon during an extended drought in Limpio, Paraguay.... Six years ago, nearly 200 countries agreed to individualized plans to fight global warming in the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement.... Now leaders will converge in Glasgow for two weeks starting

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter.... For low-and middle-income nations, COP26 is taking place under the specter of a grossly unequal global rollout of vaccines.... At the conference, many of these same nations will be asked to make significant commitments to fight climate change by wealthier nations, even if they contributed relatively little to the problem. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement The juxtaposition will be jarring....

COP climate talks were always going to be difficult: 200 countries in search of a plan to prevent catastrophic warming of the planet with time running out fast. The backdrop of terrifying weather events had brought a renewed sense of urgency to the matter.... Then, the energy crisis struck, leaving Asia and Europe scrambling for fossil fuels, forcing China to double down on coal, and giving climate laggards another excuse not to engage.... We’ll take you from the grand aims to the small detail