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"... Individual years pushing past the 1.5-degree limit ... means we need to fight even harder to get on track. ..."

The corruption of global institutions has, in turn, led to significant opposition that is becoming apparent. There is the prospect of an incoming Trump administration that is avowedly sceptical of the claims of an alleged...

Mexico is another country which continues to increase emissions. Even their Paris NDC was explicit about this, as it pledged only to cut emissions from a theoretical Business as Usual scenario. The resulting targeted emissions...

And they have barely dropped at all since the NDC was formally registered in 2016. Yet the delusional Miliband still believes that the rest of the world follow our lead, and wreck their own economies as well!

Love him or hate him, Trump’s energy policies resonate with a significant portion of the electorate, particularly in energy-producing states. For these voters, Biden’s climate targets are not only unattainable but also...

Countries that might be having second thoughts about the immense damage that net zero climate policies are doing to their economies should be encouraged to follow the United States out of the Paris agreement...

Argentina withdrew its delegation this week from the COP29 climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, just days into the two-week summit. Werthein told the Times no final decision had been made about the 2015 Paris accord, but noted...

Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory in Tuesday’s presidential election has climate activists around the world melting down. Trump called measures to control climate change “one of the great scams” of the world,...

The reasons for a US withdrawal were given seven years ago this month by President Trump. The logic holds with ever more reason.

President Macron has called a snap parliamentary election after devastating losses to right wing challenger Marine Le Penn in recent European elections.

Does "there's no sense in signing up to targets you don't have any prospect of achieving" translate to a commitment to dump Australia's Paris obligations?

The benefits of not meeting Paris Accord emissions-reduction targets outweigh the costs associated even with worst-case-scenario global warming throughout the 21st century.

Without rapid carbon dioxide emission reductions, the world has a 50% chance of locking in 1.5°C of warming before 2030, according to a study led by Imperial College London researchers.

China blithely continues on its own path, demonstrating to the world that the Paris Agreement and the entire global climate change initiative is an exercise in futility.

As industries in green nations like Germany struggle with unaffordable green energy, China is boosting coal use. China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened. That’s bad…