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Virginia Beach voters approve $568 million bond to fend off rising sea levels

By Ben Finley, Associated Press

Voters in Virginia Beach have approved a huge bond measure for a mid-sized city, committing to spend millions in hopes of avoiding billions in losses due to rising seas and intensifying hurricanes.

Investors promise action in climate fight but activists question motives

By Frank Jordans, Danica Kirka, Associated Press

Governments and big investors have announced fresh plans to pour trillions of dollars into curbing global warming.

Here are the latest promises made by Biden, global leaders at U.N. climate summit

By William Brangham

World leaders at the U.N. climate summit pledged today to cut methane emissions and conserve forests. President Joe Biden wound up his two days at the Glasgow gathering focusing on America’s role in the new initiatives. William Brangham reports.

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China’s timeline to ditch coal, adopt green technology may be too slow to help climate

By Nick Schifrin, Patrick Fok

World leaders from more than 100 countries are in attendance at the U.N. Climate conference in Scotland. But China's Xi Jinping, president of the globe's largest polluter, is absent from the crowd. For any efforts to succeed in fighting climate…

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China envoy defends emissions at climate summit, criticizes U.S. under Trump

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

China's dependence on coal power helps make it the biggest current climate polluter, although the nation in recent years has made commitments to start curbing emissions.

WATCH: Countries agree to cut methane by at least 30 percent by 2030

By Associated Press

Nations responsible for almost half the world’s methane emissions are signing a pledge Tuesday.

U.S. says oil and gas sales damage climate, but won’t quit them yet

By Matthew Brown, Associated Press

The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change.

WATCH: Biden, Boris Johnson give remarks on ‘Build Back Better World’ agenda at climate talks

By News Desk

President Joe Biden and other world leaders are making a pitch for his Build Back Better World, the U.S. president’s effort to offer an alternative to China’s infrastructure financing, at the COP26 climate talks on Tuesday.

Biden climate plan aims to reduce methane emissions

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The proposed rule would for the first time target reductions from existing oil and gas wells nationwide, rather than focus only on new wells as previous regulations have done.

More than 100 countries pledge to end deforestation at COP26

By Frank Jordans, Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Britain hailed the commitment as the first big achievement of the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow. But campaigners say they need to see the detail — such promises have been made, and broken, before.