Most countries failed to submit national emissions plans to the U.N., suggesting that the global framework for addressing ...

Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the U.N.’s climate chief calls 'among the most important policy ...

After nearly a month, the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that ravaged California have been contained. But for Southern ...

France’s AI Action Summit marks a departure from previous gatherings. Some welcome the change. Others say safety has been ...

We are pleased to share the January 2025 issue of Wilson Sonsini's Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update. Each issue combines news, ...

Exxon's CEO Darren Woods had made an early plea to the newly-elected president at the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan in November to keep the U.S. in the Paris pact, saying the cycle of exiting ...

In 2015, more than 190 countries gathered at a United Nations climate summit in Paris and approved what became known as the Paris Agreement, or the Paris Climate Accord, to limit global warming to ...

But the scale and intensity of the Southern California fires — linked in part to climate change, including record-high global temperatures in 2023 and again in 2024 — has brought a big problem ...

While finding villains to shame may satisfy some, we must accept that our cities were built to withstand “normal” conditions which climate change has ensured will never occur again.

Brazil Taps COP30 Head, Warns of Trump's Impact on Climate Talks ... the host in 2023, appointed officials who worked in state-owned oil companies to lead the summit. Brazil is also facing steep ...

It is a pact that is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which started in 1992 with the Rio Earth Summit. Technically, the Paris agreement itself is not a treaty so ...