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Politics of global warming

Environmental activists of Swiss Klimastreik Schweiz movement hold banners, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in front of the opera house on the Sechselaeutenplatz square in Zurich, Switzerland, April 24, 2020.

What history tells us about building climate coalitions

The Big Fix

Author Matto Mildenberger examined how politics have shaped decades of climate policy in his new book, “Carbon Captured.” He spoke to The World’s host Marco Werman for this week’s climate solutions segment. 

Philippines residents use improvised devices to catch fish atop their house which is submerged by floods

In 2020, the courts will continue to be a player in climate change

An estimated 100,000 people turned out for the climate strike in Berlin on Sept. 20, 2019.

In Germany, the politics of climate change are shifting beneath Merkel’s feet

Climate Change
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Why 2020 is a key year for climate action

Climate Change
A man speaks with a Shell oil yellow shell logo behind him

Shell oil says it will quit a lobbying group that opposes global climate goals

Climate Change
Attenborough speaks at the podium in Poland's climate change talks.

David Attenborough: Global warming is ‘our greatest threat’

“Leaders of the world, you must lead,” urged naturalist David Attenborough, who was given a “people’s seat” at the two-week UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, alongside two dozen heads of state and government.

a closeup of California Governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown

California emerges as a leader at climate summit

Environment

The biggest test of how much a state governor can really lead on a global problem like climate change came this week as Gov. Jerry Brown convened the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. 
California has provided leadership amid the vacuum left when the US federal government reversed course on climate policy. But there are things a state just can’t do.   

US Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) adjusts a sign at the start of a news conference led by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to draw attention to climate change in January 2014.

Republican control of Congress may be a setback for big climate change legislation, but the issue isn’t dead

Environment

With both house of Congress now controlled by Republicans, climate change legislation doesn’t seem to have a promising future. But that’s not only because of a shift in power: Voters themselves still don’t put climate change at the top of the list of issues they care about.

The candidates on climate change and energy

Global Politics

A breakdown of Barack Obama and John McCain’s climate change and energy plans.

A Troubling Climate Assessment

The US government recently released a draft of its third National Climate Assessment, saying that human activity is the primary cause of climate change. The report warns that, if emissions go unchecked, global temperatures could rise as much as ten degrees by the end of the century.