The Paris Climate Agreement, approved by world leaders last December, represented a bold commitment to prevent the worst impacts of global warming - a...

The Paris climate agreement that nearly 200 nations signed on Friday is important, but it's not enough.

Over the centuries, our species has taken plenty of wrong turns -- often because we simply didn't know any better. Well, hindsight may be 20/20, but that doesn't mean we can use it to change the past. What we can do, though, is learn from the past to make the future better.

BERLIN -- As world leaders gather in New York for the Paris climate agreement signing ceremony, they ought to remember that now is the time to finally put some muscle behind their promises.

In New York City this Friday, amidst all sorts of fanfare, world leaders are gathering at a signing ceremony of the Paris climate agreement that was...

Last year, city leaders stood at Hotel de Ville in Paris to fight for the same goal: to keep global temperature rise below 2°C.

"At night I could hear the blood in my veins, It was just as black and whispering as the rain, On the streets of Philadelphia." Bruce Springste...

It's no secret that this winter's been warmer than normal. Most of us are taking advantage of it; planning outings and running outside, coatless, when we're used to being trapped inside by an angry Old Man Winter.

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From 1992 Japan was at the frontline of the global fight against climate change with the symbolic Kyoto Protocol. Then the earthquake, the tsunami and...

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay temporarily blocking the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The plan is intended to be the main regulatory tool to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in the U.S. In many ways, it's the underpinning of U.S. commitments under the recent Paris climate agreement.

We know that the world is warming, but how much and where and why is still uncertain. Nevertheless, if you care about those who will live into the 22nd century and beyond, then it's necessary to pay an insurance premium now to protect future generations against worst-case climate scenarios.

Our response to climate change is not a battle between business and human welfare. Solutions to climate change could breathe life into the human rights movement, provide opportunity for equitable growth, and ultimately improve health.

Photo credit: Brooke Anderson What if our response to climate change created healthier communities? Could healthier habits lessen climate change...

Paris has built upon emerging shifts towards a cleaner, greener and far smarter development path for the 21st century. It has sent a clear, unequivocal and determined low carbon signal to markets and economic sectors everywhere: The course is irreversible, but the pace and breadth must now be the focus.

Arriving home after a whirlwind week in the snowy Swiss mountain village of Davos at the World Economic Forum, those of us engaged in the climate change discussions are feeling positive but pragmatic about the challenges ahead.