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The final agreement produced at the COP30 meeting where representatives of nearly 200 countries met to address the issue of climate change makes no mention of transitioning away from fossil fuels.

BELÉM, Brazil — This year's United Nations global climate conference in Brazil ended on Saturday with a formal agreement that failed to address phasing out fossil fuels — the main driver of global ...

Does it make sense to continue holding massive international summits if the core of the problem—the continued use of oil, gas, and coal—continues to be systematically avoided?

André Corrêa do Lago sits looking out from the center of a group of people who stand huddled around him, talking. A small sign reading “COP President” is in front of him. Although the 30th Conference ...

Wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of making any of the products or transportation fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet. Around the world, there is a growing belief that renewable ...

If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30 th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil were bound to be ungainly, weak, and messy.

TAGANGA, Colombia – On Colombia's Caribbean coast, a fishing village lies in a cove where green hills meet the turquoise sea. A few years ago, oil companies found natural gas off the coast and now ...

The United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, known as “the Amazon COP,” wrapped on November 22nd. Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a ...

Our reliance on fossil fuels didn’t come from a single bad choice or a lack of intelligence. It grew slowly, almost invisibly, as each generation solved immediate problems using the most powerful ...

At present, half the electricity generating capacity in India is non-fossil-fuel based — a significant achievement by all counts. But how smooth will the path be to completely phasing out dirty fuels?

Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a landmark decision at the climate summit. The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference came to a close on Wednesday after going into overtime as participating ...