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A decade after the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the treaty’s architect looks back at its legacy

Thousands of diplomats, scientists and activists are in Belém, Brazil this week for COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference. This year’s negotiations also mark 10 years since the approval ...
Heartland

Climate Change Weekly # 563—COP 30 Week Two: Paris Agreement Failure Redux

In last week’s CCW I discussed why I thought no true progress in the effort to halt climate change will result from any agreement(s) ultimately produced at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil. I also described ...
Anadolu Agency

Trump retreat on climate change creates major global funding shortfall, expert warns

The Trump administration’s retreat from global climate commitments is already punching holes in international efforts to ...
Heartland

Climate Change Weekly # 535 — Paris Climate Treaty Is Going Down

With history as a guide and two months to prepare for the announcement, there was relatively little wailing and gnashing of teeth when President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris ...
National Catholic Reporter

10 years ago, the world adopted the Paris Agreement on climate. NCR was there

Editor's Note: This article originally published in the Dec. 12, 2025 edition of the EarthBeat Weekly newsletter. Get all the news on faith, climate and environmental justice each week in your inbox ...
Jezebel

International Negotiations Weren’t Fixing Climate Change, But Leaving the Paris Agreement Sure Doesn’t Help

There is a grim symbolism to the world’s biggest historic greenhouse gas emitter and second-biggest emitter today pulling out of the international agreement aimed at cutting those emissions just a ...
KSAT

Here's what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn't do

WASHINGTON – 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 from ...
The National Interest

Paris Climate Agreement

That the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties 26 (COP26) went into overtime after two weeks of negotiations revealed once again that the issue of “climate change” is... Today, the ...
The Conversation

As the Paris climate agreement turns ten, it’s showing its age

Lisa Vanhala has received funding from the European Research Council and she has consulted for the United Nations Environment Program Copenhagen Climate Center, 3IE and the Adaptation Fund Technical ...

Trump pulls US from UN’s 'premier' agreement on climate change in sweeping order

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the United States to withdraw from major global agreements, arguing they no longer “serve American interests.” “We seek cooperation where it serves our ...
The Oakland Press

Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do

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 from ...