• WATCH: Obama speaks at COP26 climate talks

    WATCH: Obama speaks at COP26 climate talks

    Nov 08, 2021 02:45 PM EDT

    ... for $100 billion annually in financial help from rich countries to poor ones; and the idea that half of that money goes to adapting to global warming's worst effects. Several other issues, including trading carbon and transparency, also weren't solved yet. Numerous developing nations were pessimistic. They called ...

  • Is mass timber the building material of the future?

    Is mass timber the building material of the future?

    Nov 07, 2021 09:15 PM EDT

    ... sink.” They suck in carbon dioxide and lock it in. And studies have shown, replacing steel and concrete with timber can lower a building’s global warming potential. But cutting down too many trees can contribute to global warming, and some environmental groups are wary of an increased demand for ...

  • A new effort to help communities adapt to climate change

    A new effort to help communities adapt to climate change

    Nov 06, 2021 09:07 PM EDT

    ... here within the Bay Area. Tom Casciato: Climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh and his fellow Stanford University professor, Marshall Burke, published a 2019 study showing that global warming has increased the global gap between rich and poor countries by some 25%. That has implications for adaptation here at home.  Noah Diffenbaugh ...

  • Gore says 'scientists warned us' about climate

    Gore says 'scientists warned us' about climate

    Nov 05, 2021 05:18 PM EDT

    ... famous warning that “the era of procrastination (...) is coming to its close,” Gore told the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow that the impacts of global warming would soon spur momentum for action. “We are now experiencing the consequences of the climate crisis in every part of our world,” he ...

  • How young people feel about climate change and their future

    How young people feel about climate change and their future

    Nov 05, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

    ... COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to make decisions that will help determine our collective future on this planet. Scientists can predict just how much warming is expected to increase over time, and know what will help keep the most dramatic global warming at bay, and yet uncertainty reigns: Will ...

  • Countries pledge to phase out coal on climate summit sidelines

    Countries pledge to phase out coal on climate summit sidelines

    Nov 04, 2021 01:41 PM EDT

    ... of oil and gas, the other major fossil fuels, he said. LIVE UPDATES: Latest news from the COP26 climate change conference Existing targets for curbing global warming require countries to stop burning coal, but many major economies including the United States, China, India and Japan have set no formal dates ...

  • Bangladesh's villages bear the brutal cost of climate change

    Bangladesh's villages bear the brutal cost of climate change

    Nov 03, 2021 06:42 PM EDT

    Speaking before fellow leaders Monday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh raised the thorny issue of major polluters paying compensation for the destruction caused by global warming. "The issue of loss and damage must be addressed, including global sharing of responsibility for climate migrants and those displaced by sea-level ...

  • Investors promise action in climate fight but activists question motives

    Investors promise action in climate fight but activists question motives

    Nov 03, 2021 05:40 PM EDT

    ... a senior climate expert at the World Resources Institute think tank. She said that mobilizing massive public and private finance will be key to tackling global warming. To that end, Sunak said U.K. financial institutions and publicly traded companies will be required to publish plans detailing how green their ...

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

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

    Nov 02, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    That produced the 2015 Paris climate accords' pledge to reduce emissions enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Climate experts say Beijing has met its Paris promises. Beijing's poured billions into electric cars and the world's largest network of electric buses. By 2060, it hopes renewable ...

  • Africa presses for more climate support at COP26

    Africa presses for more climate support at COP26

    Nov 02, 2021 07:29 PM EDT

    ... to gather and talk about climate change. "We just need to adapt to it and take it the way we see it," she said of global warming.According to a report last month from the World Meteorological Organization and other U.N. agencies, Africa's people remain "extremely vulnerable" as ...