Inger Andersen, of UNEP, urges courts to champion climate justice and environmental rule of law to protect human rights amid worsening climate impacts.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic members of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition will ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Leader after leader told the United Nations on Monday that they will do more to prevent a warming world from reaching even more dangerous levels. But as they made their pledges at ...

President Donald Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetuated” and a “scam” during his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. In a lengthy diatribe against ...

On the day before a United Nation’s summit on climate change, President Donald Trump delivered wide-ranging remarks to the UN General Assembly on Sept. 23 that included calling climate science and ...

President Trump delivered a combative U.N. General Assembly speech, criticizing multiple countries by name. The nearly hourlong address violated diplomatic protocol as Trump aired personal grievances ...

16-year-old Greta Thunberg took adults to task over the environment. The young activist didn’t mince words when she took the stage -- and took adults to task at the United Nation's Climate Action ...

On Tuesday, President Obama will use a speech at Georgetown University to announce new, sweeping executive orders addressing climate change that will be designed to appease critics who have attacked ...

WASHINGTON (WPRI) — Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is making national headlines this week for hitting a milestone in his efforts to urge more action by Congress to address climate change.

In the first U.N. General Assembly address of his second term, President Trump attacked the global body for not stopping wars and for focusing on addressing climate ...