DEFINITION: A global climate change deal signed at Paris at COP 21 in December 2015 and ratified by 97 countries in November 2016. The deal “emphasises with serious concern” the need to hold the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn’t quite kept the world ...

The Paris Agreement is a triumph for people, the environment, and for multilateralism. It is a health insurance policy for the planet. For the first time, every country in the world has pledged to ...

Without them, the goals of the Paris Agreement may remain only on paper. This article is republished from The Conversation ...

Dr. Denise Keele, associate professor political science and head of the newly instituted climate change minor, discussed how the Paris agreement on climate change occurred. “It’s called COP21 because ...

The World Bank Group commitment on Paris alignment is part of a broader MDB vision to align all financial flows with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, as announced in 2017 and reiterated in the ...

Just this morning, CNN reported that President Trump plans to pull out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, in defiance of immense pressure from the left not to. There is similar pressure on ...

What is the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 and why is it so controversial? Article 6 involves a system of carbon credits which allow countries to release planet-warming gasses if they offset ...