Fossil fuel phase-out

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

November 28, 2023Environment

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

October 22, 2020The Big Fix

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

June 30, 2019Elections

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

June 26, 2019Environment

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