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The rules, designed to inform investors of business risks from climate change, were rolled back amid opposition from the G.O.P., fossil fuel producers, farmers and others. The Securities and Exchange [...]

The S.E.C. was the target of intense corporate lobbying and a backlash from Republicans. What should companies have to tell their investors about climate change risks? The U.S. Securities and [...]

The lawsuit says the meatpacking company has made a series of misleading statements about its environmental efforts. The New York attorney general, Letitia James, on Wednesday sued JBS USA, the [...]

The region faces a confluence of factors, including the fastest sea level rise in the country, increasingly humid temperatures and extreme rainfall. Tropical Storm Debby is a reminder of the [...]

The soaring electricity demands of data centers and A.I. are straining the grid in some areas, pushing up emissions and slowing the energy transition. A.I.’s insatiable appetite for energy A [...]

The lawsuit says the meatpacking company has made a series of misleading statements about its environmental efforts. The New York attorney general, Letitia James, on Wednesday sued JBS USA, the [...]

“It’s like an omen of the future.” From his office at the University of Miami, Brian McNoldy, an expert in hurricane formation, is tracking the latest temperature data from the [...]

Byline: David Gelles Financial giants were already trimming their climate pledges amid Republican attacks. Then came concerns about legal risks. Many of the world's biggest financial firms spent the past [...]

Financial giants were already trimming their climate pledges amid Republican attacks. Then came concerns about legal risks. Many of the world's biggest financial firms spent the past several years burnishing [...]

Complex environmental systems are undergoing profound upheavals as a result of human activity. A drumbeat of recent reports has driven home the fact that our planet’s complex environmental systems are [...]

$71 million of the clothing company's earnings have been used since September 2022 to fund wildlife restoration, dam removal and Democratic groups. A little more than $3 million to block [...]

Clean power, melting glaciers and carbon capture. I spent the first half of this week reporting in Iceland, and I came away convinced that the country provides a window into [...]

Byline: David Gelles and Kenneth P. Vogel $71 million of the clothing company's earnings have been used since September 2022 to fund wildlife restoration, dam removal and Democratic groups. A [...]

The Biden administration will examine how a natural gas mega-project will impact the climate. This is just what the climate activists wanted. The White House is https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/climate/biden-lng-export-terminal-cp2.html about approving a [...]

“Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.” When I caught up with Jane Goodall in 2019, she was calling on consumers and businesses to make [...]

“Yeah, the world is going to end, but I’m still going to vacation.” Here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the most revealing discussions often happen not on the [...]

“A visceral feeling of what climate change looks and feels like.” Almost no one in the United States experienced https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/22/us/christmas-snow-weather-forecast.html. Ski areas in the West https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/west-coast-snowpack-ski-warming.html. The Great Lakes began [...]

We’re watching these developments in the year to come. Last year was the warmest in recorded history. What does 2024 have in store? For starters, it is almost certain to [...]

A proposed export terminal on the Louisiana coast highlights the tension between economic growth, geopolitics and the environment. On a marshy stretch of the Louisiana coastline, a little-known company wants [...]

A proposed export terminal on the Louisiana coast highlights the tension between economic growth, geopolitics and the environment. On a marshy stretch of the Louisiana coastline, a little-known company wants [...]

TV shows, movies, books, art exhibits and pop music about our rapidly warming planet. 2023 was a year when climate change felt inescapable. Whether it was the raging wildfires in [...]

An unlikely breakthrough on fossil fuels at COP28 They are just two little words. They appear on just one page of an 11,000 word document. But https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/climate/cop28-climate-agreement.htmll marks a potentially [...]

Negotiators are working through the night to reach a deal. It’s well past midnight in Dubai, and negotiations are still ongoing on the last day of the United Nations climate [...]

Ajay Banga, who took over the top job in June, has prioritized global warming issues in his first months on the job. For years now, heads of state and government, [...]

Ajay Banga, who took over the top job in June, has prioritized global warming issues in his first months on the job. For years now, heads of state and government, [...]

Byline: David Gelles, Lisa Friedman and Vivian Nereim As negotiators work to agree on a final text, attention has turned to a fundamental question: Will the talks call for a [...]

As negotiators work to agree on a final text, attention has turned to a fundamental question: Will the talks call for a phaseout of fossil fuels? With fresh promises to [...]

Finding money for fossil fuel plants is much easier than financing clean energy projects, especially in developing countries. The annual United Nations climate change conference is underway in Dubai, and [...]

Byline: David Gelles After decades of meetings, nations still haven't agreed to curb the main driver of global warming. As leaders from nearly every nation on the planet gather on [...]

World leaders at climate talks in Dubai invoked faith, science and economics in their calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. With dire warnings of planetary catastrophe and [...]

Finding money for fossil fuel plants is much easier than financing clean energy projects, especially in developing countries. The annual United Nations climate change conference is underway in Dubai, and [...]

World leaders called on Friday for urgent action to slow global warming as the annual United Nations climate summit kicked into gear against a backdrop of https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/01/climate/cop28-climate-change-summit#the-israel-hamas-war-has-imperiled-already-fragile-climate-diplomacy-ahead-of-cop28 and rising global [...]

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who took office last year pledging to make environmental policy a cornerstone of his administration, called climate change “the greatest challenge that [...]

Secretary General António Guterres opened the second day of the United Nations climate conference with a challenge to world leaders and fossil fuel executives. Speaking before global leaders including King [...]

India has rapidly built out wind and solar power in recent years, but is also building new coal plants and gets the majority of its power from fossil fuels. The [...]

Reminders of the war in Gaza punctuated the speeches on Friday at the annual United Nations climate summit on a day when fighting between Israel and Hamas resumed after a [...]

World leaders at climate talks in Dubai invoked faith, science and economics in their calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. With dire warnings of planetary catastrophe and [...]

After decades of meetings, nations still haven't agreed to curb the main driver of global warming. As leaders from nearly every nation on the planet gather on Thursday in the [...]

Global carbon dioxide emissions might have already peaked, according to new estimates, signaling a potentially monumental shift. Amid a deluge of terrifying headlines about https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/us/memorial-day-weekend-storms.html, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/world/asia/india-delhi-hottest-day-ever.html and DVD-sized https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/29/texas-hail-dvd-size-record-nwws/, here’s [...]

The president’s signature 2022 climate law has sparked a rapid clean energy boom but its political impact is a lot less clear. The Biden clean energy boom It’s been nearly [...]

How to save a pristine valley As the helicopter lifted off and disappeared into the clouds, the roar of the whirring blades fell away and all that was left was [...]

It’s still unclear how the world will pay for developing nations to fight climate change. The missing $1 trillion For the past two years, world leaders, economists and activists have [...]

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Draft preview text here for visibility and workshopping (It will not show up in newsletter) The roadblocks to Biden’s E.V. plan The Biden administration https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/biden-phase-out-gas-cars.html designed to thrust the United [...]

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An Abu Dhabi fund is expected to invest at least $30 billion in climate projects with some of the biggest names in North American finance. An Emirati financial firm is [...]

The United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, is hosting this year’s climate summit. I’m in Dubai at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP28, and [...]

It could deliver a jolt of ambition ahead of the global talks. The United States and China https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/climate/us-china-climate-agreement.html on Tuesday evening to sharply increase clean energy, displace fossil fuels and [...]