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Ahead of the UN climate conference in Brazil, international leaders including Germany's Merz and Brazil's Lula are meeting to discuss climate action. Experts say they should reaffirm their ambition to curb emissions.
Democrats won gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, where candidates made affordability concerns and skyrocketing electricity bills central to their campaigns.
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
For the first time in years, New York’s environmental justice advocates say they’ll be working with the city’s government—rather than against it.
Here's what's open and what's stalled as the political standoff continues.

Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget scales back rules around greenwashing, and hints an oil and gas emissions cap is unlikely. But it introduces a youth climate corps and renews efforts to lift boil-water advisories

The landmark Paris Agreement triggered a wave of climate commitments. A decade later, Bloomberg examined seven key categories to chart progress amid a new era of attacks on global warming science and action.

The University of California, San Diego, is among a growing number of colleges requiring all undergraduates to take courses on climate change, reflecting a shift in higher education toward preparing students in every field to understand and respond to the global climate crisis.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 66 people dead and 26 missing in the central Philippines. Many were trapped on roofs or swept away by floods in Cebu, which was hit hard on Tuesday.
The pressure is on for leaders attending the 30th UN Climate Change Conference to prevent global warming from accelerating further. Where are countries making strides?
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds
The air nuisance rule has helped advocates rein in pollution from coal-burning plants and other facilities. Without it, air quality could worsen.
The budge office wanted to weaken curbs on cars' soot- and smog-forming air pollutants as it unraveled a key climate policy.
The president hates EVs. But his policies are making gas cars more expensive too.
As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change action, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action.
Judges curbed rollbacks during Trump’s first term. But the courts and the law have changed thanks to Trump’s own appointments. Those votes will be critical as his team seeks to erase the legal basis for climate action in his second term.

New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected.

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