countries.“ This is crucial language, ’’ WRI International Climate Initiative Director David Waskow said

Governments are poised to express alarm and concern about global warming already happening and encourage one another to end their use of coal, according to a draft released Wednesday of the final document expected at UN climate talks. The early version of the document circulating at the talks in Glasgow, Scotland, also impresses on countries the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions by about half by 2030 even though pledges so far from governments don't add up to that frequently stated goal.In a

The US has a lot of ground to make up," says Rachel Cleetus, a climate and energy policy director with the Union of Concerned Scientists.... " The US had to get that off the table, because they would have never heard the end of it." Other concerns can't be so neatly addressed.... Those concerns haven't gone away." They don't want to upset the apple cart by poking Joe Manchin in the eye," says Alden Meyer, a senior associate with research group E3G....

Climate activists take part in a demonstration outside the venue of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov.... Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa, a long-time talks observer, said poorer nations are beyond disappointed with the way the United Kingdom presidency has come up with drafts and that this has become" a rich world" negotiation.... As the talks approached midnight, rich nations had a much more optimistic view, showing the split that might occur after new drafts appe

“ This isn’t just something we have to do to protect the environment and future.... In 2014, for instance, more than 200 governments, companies and civil society organizations signed the New York Declaration on Forests, which called for halving the rate of deforestation by 2020 and halting it by 2030.... They include a range of new proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to halt leaks from aging oil and gas wells and to better monitor and capture the planet-heating gas before it escap