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Al Gore: China could surprise the world at Glasgow climate talks

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is hopeful China and the United States will set aside their differences at U.N. climate change talks in Glasgow, just as they came together in 2015 to help hammer out the Paris Agreement.

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Countries must cut emissions this decade to avoid climate disaster later: Britain

Countries will have to start delivering on emissions-reduction targets during the 2020s, rather than later, to avoid devastation from climate change, the British president of the upcoming COP26 climate summit says.

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Biden restores climate change page to EPA website, reversing Trump

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restored a page containing key climate change information to its public website on Thursday, four years after the Trump administration had removed it as part of a strategy to downplay global warming threats.

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U.S. must slash emissions by at least 57% to meet Paris climate target: Report

The United States needs to set a target to slash its greenhouse gas emissions between 57% and 63% below 2005 levels by 2030 in order to achieve the Biden administration's longer-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a new analysis.

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EU climate change plans will ripple through foreign policy, researchers say

The European Union's goal to have zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will have "profound geopolitical repercussions," including sharply lower revenue to oil and gas exporting neighbors such as Russia, Algeria and Libya, the European University Institute and two influential think-tanks say.

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Environmentalists make a case for leaving fossil fuels in the ground

Economic, climate and healthcare upheavals point to the need to move toward developing cleaner energy sources, environmentally friendly jobs and healthier communities, participants in a Reuters Next panel say.

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Canada unveils hydrogen strategy to kick-start clean fuel industry

Canada unveiled a long-discussed hydrogen strategy on Wednesday, calling on investors to spur growth in a clean fuel sector that the government says could be worth C$50 billion ($39.2 billion), create 350,000 jobs and help the country achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Al Gore: China could surprise the world at Glasgow climate talks

Countries must cut emissions this decade to avoid climate disaster later: Britain

Biden restores climate change page to EPA website, reversing Trump

U.S. must slash emissions by at least 57% to meet Paris climate target: Report

EU climate change plans will ripple through foreign policy, researchers say

Environmentalists make a case for leaving fossil fuels in the ground

Canada unveils hydrogen strategy to kick-start clean fuel industry

Harris links climate action to American values as part of presidential push

Brazil urges EU to delay new deforestation law

Greenland landslide triggered global seismic event for nine days

As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding

Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

Op-ed: People need shelter from climate change — their health hangs in the balance

Oregon’s biggest gas company isn’t as green as it claims