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EU climate chief lobbied Germany to back weakened 2040 goal

BRUSSELS — The European Commission’s climate chief successfully lobbied Germany’s coalition government to endorse a controversial measure that weakens the EU’s next climate target.  Wopke Hoekstra, the EU executive’s climate commissioner, held talks with Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social Democrats (SPD)
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Past promises haunt Brazil’s climate summit

BELÉM, Brazil — United Nations climate summits have for years ended with bold promises to stave off global warming. But those commitments often fade when nations go home. Three years ago, in

US Senator Whitehouse waves climate banner at Brazil summit — no thanks to Trump, he says

BELÉM, Brazil — The State Department helped stymie U.S. officials’ ability to attend this year’s United Nations climate talks here, Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse alleged Friday. The lawmaker from Rhode Island is

Democratic lawmaker becomes sole US federal representative at climate summit

BELÉM, Brazil — Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will arrive Friday at the COP30 climate summit — making him the sole U.S. federal representative at United Nations talks that the Trump administration is skipping. Whitehouse’s

Keir Starmer, climate leader (when the Treasury lets him)

LONDON — Keir Starmer loves to play the climate leader. But only when his political advisers (and the powerful Chancellor Rachel Reeves) tell him he’s allowed. The green-minded U.K. prime minister flies

UN: Nations well off-track of Paris climate agreement goals

New national plans designed to more aggressively combat climate change would hardly dent already dangerously high global temperature projections, according to a United Nations report published Tuesday. The findings underscore the task at hand

UN: Global climate plans falling short of the goal

Governments are falling far short of the promises they made to cut plant-warming pollution under the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago, the United Nations said in a report Tuesday. Only a minority of
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