GLASGOW, Scotland - World leaders promised to protect the world's forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World leaders attending the COP26 U.N. climate summit should focus not only on abandoning fossil fuels but also on setting ambitious goals to end ...

Inevitably, perhaps, the outcome of November’s COP26 summit has polarized public opinion. While policymakers point to progress on issues such as the operation of the ratchet mechanism and the ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's environment minister has dismissed as "inappropriate and unfair" a global plan to end deforestation by 2030, days after her country, home to a third of the world's ...

On the second day of COP26, countries made progress on limiting methane emissions, capping oil and gas emissions, and cooperating on water issues that are increasingly urgent ...

On the face of it, COP26 – the climate meeting in Glasgow – has failed, with the world still heading for 2.4°C warming this century. This would be catastrophic for humans and nature. So why am I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he’s asked the European Union to suspend a new regulation designed to reduce ...

Timber and pulp industries are lagging in transparency regarding their zero-deforestation and traceability commitments, a new report shows. The report, produced by the conservation nonprofit ...