“Their silence now is cowardly, complicit in reinforcing the status quo fossil fuel economy, and shows that they care more about their own profits than the American people,” Bill Weihl, Facebook’s former director of sustainability, told Corbin and me.
The US reversal on climate change will have “a big influence” on discussions at the global summit, said COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago.
On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times,
At a time when international collaboration is essential to tackling the climate crisis, this move isolates the US and risks undermining the collective progress made thus far
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The Brazilian diplomat who will chair the next UN climate summit on Thursday praised China as an example in the fight against climate change while admonishing rich countries for shirking their responsibilities.
Andre Correa do Lago, who will preside over the first climate conference in the Amazon rainforest in November, praised China’s “extraordinary progress” on combatting climate change
Canada has warned Amazon.com that it is reviewing business ties with the company’s cloud-computing unit following Amazon’s decision to shut down its warehouses in Quebec, leading to the layoff of 1,700 workers.
Carbon markets investor Silvania, backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria and two non-profits, announced a $1.5 billion fund on Wednesday.
The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written to both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the U.S.
BRASILIA - Brazil's newly nominated head of the planned 2025 COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement would cast a shadow over the talks.