More than 30,000 people will begin meeting at the United Nations' climate change conference in Egypt beginning Sunday. The yearly gathering has been going on for decades, but the bad news about ...

Today, the United Nations offers a kind of decision memo to leaders around the world on how to address climate change. Rebecca Hersher from NPR's climate desk is here. Good morning.

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared a "code red for humanity" in a report released Monday, giving a glimpse of the world's future. And the report's statement on ...

The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

President Joe Biden on Friday used a short visit to the United Nations climate change summit in Egypt to tell the world the United States was ready to take back its leadership role on fighting a ...

A UN body focused on climate change does exist. It’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It was established in 1994 and it now has near universal membership.

Look, I am not a numbers person. And if I didn’t write about climate change for a living, this latest report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) wouldn’t hit the same. It says ...

A U.N. report shows that big nations' fossil-fuel-boosting actions are at odds with their emissions-cutting pledges. They must do better at the COP28 climate summit.

THE HAGUE — The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating effects of ...

A new report from the United Nations is the most comprehensive look yet at how climate change has transformed the planet. It incorporates new research into how climate change supercharges extreme ...

Climate and Environment As they gather at U.N., world leaders face furious push to act quickly on climate change ‘We really are out of time,’ Secretary-General António Guterres warns ...

When some 200 scientists convened by the United Nations all but demanded on Monday that the nations immediately band together to cut emissions, they portrayed it as a brief window to avert the ...