South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed into law a new climate change act, the first of its kind for the country. The legislation aims to both reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate ...

The Leaders' Declaration from a Group of 20 summit in South Africa on Saturday stressed the seriousness of climate change, in a snub to U.S. President Donald Trump, who boycotted the gathering and doubts the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by human activities.

Nations sealed a modest agreement at the UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday as many countries swallowed weaker terms on a fossil fuel phaseout to preserve unity.Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of exhaustive negotiations on the fringes of the rainforest,

The world’s largest economies have defied US President Donald Trump by agreeing to a leaders’ declaration at the G20 – a unified plan that places strong emphasis on accelerating global climate action.

Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies convened in Johannesburg for a summit notably boycotted by the United States, after a draft declaration was prepared without U.S. input. According to multiple sources,