President-elect Joe Biden has selected Gina McCarthy, Barack Obama’s former EPA chief, to run a special White House office on climate change that will coordinate policy and elevate global warming…
[Subscription required to read this article.] China marked the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Saturday by modestly increasing its commitment to embrace non-fossil energy and carbon efficiency by the end of this decade…
[The Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] Five years ago this month, negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed at a conference near Paris to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”