By Charlotte Crang If you wander by the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris this week, you will hear the bustle of children at play, giggling teens and the chatter of camera-happy tourists. It’s lovely, until you consider that they are gathered around what was...
Climate negotiators will likely come up with a landmark deal to curb carbon emissions. But it will be just a start — the end of the beginning. A visitor at the Paris climate talks, 1 December 2015 (EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo) Climate negotiators nearing the middle...
By Nelson Graves A climate conference in Paris could mark a turning point in the fight against global warming even if countries do not commit themselves yet to adequate cuts in carbon emissions, France’s special envoy to the talks said. “Paris marks an...
Despite attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to start at the end of the month will go ahead in the French capital. The government has announced that two major street demonstrations that activists had planned for...
The Pew Research Center, a U.S. think tank, has produced a report on attitudes around the world toward climate change. It is an extraordinarily detailed compilation of data, presented in Pew style — user friendly — and well timed, coming just ahead of the...