KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough ...

GLASGOW, Scotland - World leaders promised to protect the world's forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's environment minister has dismissed as "inappropriate and unfair" a global plan to end deforestation by 2030, days after her country, home to a third of the world's ...

Inevitably, perhaps, the outcome of November’s COP26 summit has polarized public opinion. While policymakers point to progress on issues such as the operation of the ratchet mechanism and the ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World leaders attending the COP26 U.N. climate summit should focus not only on abandoning fossil fuels but also on setting ambitious goals to end ...

More than 100 countries pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has been made and broken before ...

A powerful speech by the prime minister of Barbados was a breakout moment at COP26. Mia Mottley said a 2-degree Celsius rise in global temperature would be a "death sentence." She called for more ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest slowed over the last 12 months by nearly half compared to the previous year, according to new government data. The country lost 4300 sq ...

Timber and pulp industries are lagging in transparency regarding their zero-deforestation and traceability commitments, a new report shows. The report, produced by the conservation nonprofit ...

Chocolate heavyweights Nestlé, Mars and Ferrero have reportedly given their support to the EU’s upcoming ban on imported goods linked to deforestation. News agency Reuters said it had seen a paper ...