Inaction on climate change exposes economies to massive costs from extreme weather events, infrastructure damage, and agricultural losses, according to the World Resources Institute. The global economic benefits from avoided damages and short-term improvements could increase globally by up to 3% by 2050.

The 1992 UNFCCC serves as the international structure for efforts by 198 countries to slow the rate of rising climate pollution. It has universal participation. The U.S. was the first industrialized nation to join the treaty following its ratification under former President George H.W. Bush — and it will be the only nation ever to leave it.

The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations' key climate treaty is a "colossal own goal" that will harm the U.S. economy, jobs and living standards, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said on Thursday.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the United States to withdraw from major global agreements, arguing they no longer “serve American interests.” “We seek cooperation where it serves our people and will stand firm where it does not,

Nature magazine, a top British weekly scientific journal, retracted a study predicting climate change would cost an annual $38 trillion throughout the next 25 years after its methodology and staggering economic findings came under scrutiny. "Readers are ...

CLIMATE change could cut off up to 2 percent of the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) annually in the long term without stronger adaptation measures, the International Monetary Fund warned. Based on the IMF’s climate models,

As South Asia faces the escalating impacts of climate change, the region’s ability to respond effectively hinges on more than just access to climate finance and technical solutions. A critical yet often underexplored dimension is the political economy ...

Elections, international talks on plastics and shipping, and gatherings of coalitions of the willing will shape climate progress in 2026

Water is connected to everything. We need it for food, energy, health, biodiversity, urbanisation, transport. Yet we abuse and overuse it; we exploit and pollute it. “Still, we think that it always will be there,

Climate change is macro-critical to Andorra: with (mostly winter) tourism accounting for one third of its economy, Andorra is directly exposed to climate change—shorter winter seasons, declining snow falls,

On Wednesday, President Trump announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the principal treaty for international cooperation on climate change.