In October 2025, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates made headlines by declaring that "climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization." The admission ...

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has taken a firm stance against President Donald Trump’s interpretation of his recent climate memo, describing it as a “gigantic misreading.” Gates’ memo, ...

PIK study shows significant increase in warming rate since 2015, warning of rapid failure to meet Paris climate goals.

Environment / War is a climate story, but billionaire media owners don’t want to tell it. Kyle Pope This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia ...

Science should not be a partisan game, and it’s wrong to call out partisanship from just one direction, writes Bjorn Lomborg. iStock / Getty Images Green activists accuse the Trump administration of ...

The world has started to recognize that the climate’s fate depends on what happens to the ocean. At COP30, ocean-based solutions attracted significant attention and investment, but much more must be ...

Human impacts on the global climate are premised on the position that the burning of fossil fuels increases the greenhouse, gas carbon dioxide, in our atmosphere, thereby altering our climate. The ...

Decoupling China in the Climate Debate CFR’s Elizabeth Economy says it is “not unreasonable” to seek binding commitments from China and India on emissions that would take effect a decade from now. She ...

If science shows us the urgency for climate action, then ethics must show us the way, writes Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF Global Climate and Energy Lead and COP20 President, in a new discussion paper ...

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