COP21

Despite continued inaction by Congress, March was a really good month for clean-energy reform.

• By Ben DeJarnette

Can sports teams muscle environmentalism into the mainstream?

• By Brian J. Barth

Amid conflicting assessments of the Paris Agreement, two things are clear: World governments still love carbon markets, and COP21 went a long way toward simply giving slash-and-burn agriculture a makeover.

• By Ian Graber-Stiehl

The death of Antonin Scalia may have spared the historic agreement from a premature demise, but its constitutional underpinnings are still in jeopardy.

• By Jared Keller

As the Roberts court issues a stay on Obama's Clean Power Plan, the future of U.S. climate commitments remains uncertain.

• By Jonathan M. Katz

How India builds its energy grid could decide the fate of humanity. Maybe we should help the country out.

• By Brian Palmer

It would be difficult but not impossible for a Republican president to undo the Paris Agreement. For that reason alone, the 2016 election is about whether the world has a future.

• By Lucia Graves

Cities, states, and businesses—not just those world leaders in Paris—will save us from climate change. Here’s what they’re going to do.

• By Brian Palmer

Here are the Senate’s options for trying to muck up the international agreement made in Paris.

• By Brian Palmer

After dancing around the margins of the COP, on December 12, civil society finally got its day in the spotlight.

• By Lucie Kroening

Optimism reigns as world leaders gavel a landmark climate deal at COP21.

• By Lucia Graves

Climate change affects women disproportionately—yet tensions among Middle Eastern states, and a dearth of women at COP21, mean the final agreement is unlikely to do much for them.

• By Lucia Graves

The rise of Donald Trump adds urgency to the fight for climate justice—and reminds us what that fight is really about.

• By Wen Stephenson

Yesterday, the ministers pulled an all-nighter with Laurent Fabius to produce the penultimate draft of a climate agreement. Resigned to a toothless deal, activists plan their next steps.

• By Ted Scheinman

A foundational figure in America’s contemporary green movement, McKibben says whatever the outcome of COP21, it is citizens who must exert the power.

• By Lucia Graves

They number over 100 million. There's a new one every second. And—despite whatever you've heard—almost none of them are relocating to the West.

• By Ted Scheinman

Esau Sinnok has traveled 4,500 miles to defend his small barrier island against a climate that threatens to sink it.

• By Lucia Graves

How to decipher the Russian president’s mystifying statements on global warming.

• By Brian Palmer

The tensions at this year's summit have yielded scenes of strange beauty.

• By Ted Scheinman

Inside the growing evangelical movement to acknowledge the reality—and the victims—of climate change.

• By Laura Turner

The tiny South Asian kingdom of Bhutan absorbs three times as much carbon as it emits.

• By Brian Palmer

Major powers make a major concession on their stated climate targets. Given the money and the science, that concession remains largely rhetorical.

• By Ted Scheinman

Here are the best- and worst-case outcomes for the Paris climate talks.

• By Brian Palmer

The closing week of COP21 will be defined by how—and whether—parties can agree to frame the final document around these three crucial words.

• By Lucia Graves