Pressure will grow on China on climate – U.S. security adviser Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday he believed pressure would grow on China to offer "something fundamentally more ambitious" in the fight against climate…

What they are saying about the U.N. climate deal

GLASGOW (Reuters) -Reactions to the climate deal agreed at the COP26 conference in Scotland on Saturday: ALOK SHARMA, COP26 PRESIDENT "I think today we can say with credibility that we’ve…

Japan, once a leader on climate, under fire for coal use at COP26

By Aaron Sheldrick and Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 20 countries agreed to phase out coal power at the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, but not Japan -…

U.N. urges Australia to speed up efforts to drop coal

(Reuters) - Australia's government should increase its efforts to phase out coal or else climate change will dramatically damage the country's economy, Selwin Hart, the United Nations special adviser on…