Fossil fuel phase-out

A person in all black walks past a logo at the media center ahead of the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit.

Confidence in UN climate talks at a low point ahead of COP28 in Dubai

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Optimism soared after the Paris Agreement was established in 2015. But progress at UN climate talks since then has been incremental at best.

In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo an uniper coal-fired power plant and BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

What Germany can teach the US about quitting coal

The Big Fix
Jay Inslee climate scorecard

Greenpeace releases scorecard for Democratic presidential candidates’ commitment to climate change

Elections
Steam rises from a power plant

New report finds subsidies for coal are rising, not falling, in G20 countries

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