Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement In the wake of this decision, I wanted to get a sense of the consequences to both the climate change goals embedded in the Paris Agreement and...
Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Today, we are seeing the first sign of the kind of post-American geopolitical reality that this move has created. The...
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar are facing a major clean up after Cyclone Mora hit the area earlier this week. Overall, government officials estimate that 17,500 houses were destroyed in Bangladesh and search operations continue for dozens of missing people, this...
After months of delays, foot-dragging, inconclusive meetings and further delays, news reports are saying that Donald Trump is poised to announce his decision on the Paris Agreement: He’s bailing. By staying in the agreement the US had nothing to lose. But by...
Can China and India save the planet as the US walks away from the Paris Agreement? The latest round of climate talks under the Paris Agreement wrapped up last week, and brought with them an interesting study by the Climate...
A meeting among President Donald Trump’s senior advisors to figure out the administration’s stance on the Paris Agreement is reportedly back on after an earlier one was called off. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, National Economic...
Top White House advisors are scheduled to huddle on Tuesday to determine the future of US involvement in the Paris Climate Agreement. The voices in the room — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Jared Kushner and...
When nearly two hundred countries around the world signed the Paris Agreement last year, they committed to work together to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, and, ideally, the safer 1.5 degrees Celsius. Those targets had long been a...
Climate change is beginning to affect the lives of communities around the word. With temperature records being broken, yearly, monthly and daily, severe droughts imperiling food systems and bizarre storms disrupting economies and claiming lives around the world, it’s becoming...