Rappler's latest stories on Paris agreement
Climate campaigners win appeal to prevent new Heathrow runway
Triumphant campaigners call on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to finally cancel the project

G20 funds fossil fuels $30 billion a year under the radar – analysis
The export credit agencies of G20 countries currently provide more than 10 times more state-backed finance to oil, gas, and coal projects abroad than they do to renewable energy schemes

Gatchalian calls for probe into PH greenhouse gas emissions
‘The State has the constitutional obligation to protect and advance the right of the people to a balanced and healthful ecology in accord with the rhythm and harmony of nature,’ Gatchalian says

U.N. chief urges action to avert climate change 'catastrophe'
'Climate disruption is happening now. It is progressing even faster than the world's top scientists have predicted,' says United Nations chief Antonio Guterres

Raw materials behind half of global emissions – U.N.
Authors of a major new report present lawmakers and businesses with a stark choice: drastically reform the global economy to get more from less, or risk the collapse of global infrastructure

Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt, study warns
Glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region are a critical water source for some 250 million people in the mountains as well as to 1.65 billion others in the river valleys below

Nations still worlds apart at crunch U.N. climate summit
Far from the goal of reducing global temperature to 'well below' two degrees Celsius, experts urge delegates to act immediately or condemn at-risk nations to prevent worse effects

U.N. climate summit set for tense finale as nations sound alarm
Sources close to the COP24 talks say delegates from nearly 200 nations are still far apart on several issues – from adopting the latest environmental science to how future climate action is funded

CO2 emissions up 2.7%, world 'off course' to curb warming
Research shows rapid deployment of solar and wind power, along with gains in energy efficiency, have been outpaced by growth in demand for freight, personal transport, shipping, and aviation

G20 summit shows strains over climate change
A final communique adopted at the summit says all G20 members, except the United States, agreed to implement the 'irreversible' Paris Agreement on climate change

Global warming outpaces efforts to slow it – U.N.
To cap global warming at 2ºC, national carbon-cutting pledges annexed to the 2015 Paris Agreement must collectively triple by 2030

U.N. report on global warming target puts governments on the spot
(3rd UPDATE) 'This will be one of the most important meetings in IPCC history,' says Hoesung Lee, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

World leaders gather to breathe new life into Paris accord
'We are not here just to speak, but to be accountable,' says French President Emmanuel Macron, who launched the 'One Planet Summit' in 2017

Leaders back climate change urgency in New York
UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa calls on nations to unite behind limiting global warming to the less than 2ºC enshrined in the 2015 Paris accord.

World must act by 2020 to avoid runaway climate change – UN chief
'Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment,' says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

Global climate protests peak in U.S. as U.N. talks falter
'Alternative Energy, not Alternative Facts,' reads one slogan, while another – more blunt – says, 'More Science, Less Bullshit'

Bangkok climate conference sounds alarm ahead of UN summit
The 6-day UN conference opens with an urgent plea from delegates to finalize a 'rule book' governing the Paris Agreement, the most ambitious global pact yet, to address the impacts of climate change

Could coal lobbying and free speech curbs hamper pivotal UN climate talks?
Civil society groups are worried that the Paris Agreement could crumble at the last minute, as the final meeting to decide its implementation will be held in Poland, Europe's second biggest coal-producing country

New phase of globalization could worsen CO2 pollution – study
As Asia's giants move up the globalization food chain, many of the industries that helped propel their phenomenal growth are moving to Vietnam, Indonesia and other nations investing heavily in a coal-powered future

How has Trump's Paris pullout plan affected climate negotiations in Bonn?
Delegations at the latest round of climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, show that US President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has not weakened their stance to fight climate change

Will the Paris Agreement work?
The Bonn conference will highlight the Talanoa Dialogue which, for the first time, will gather country negotiators, business leaders, and civil society groups in a face-to-face meeting to discuss what is a fair and adequate – but scaled up –contribution from different countries to reduce emissions

Trump willing to sign a revamped Paris climate deal
While the president remains firm in his criticism of the historic accord, which was signed by his predecessor Barack Obama, he said he would be willing to sign up to a revamped deal

1.5ºC climate goal 'very unlikely' but doable – draft UN report
'There is a very high risk that under current emissions trajectories, and current national pledges, global warming will exceed 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels,' says the 1,000-page report prepared by hundreds of scientists

Trump says U.S. could 'conceivably' return to Paris climate deal
Trump's comments will renew questions about whether he actually intends to withdraw or simply wants easier US emissions targets

Leaders join France's Macron to discuss climate cash crunch
Without trillions of dollars of investment in clean energy, the pact's goal to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels will remain a pipe dream

[OPINION] TRAIN at a crossroads on a coal tax
Our electricity bills would likely increase not because of a coal tax but because coal will become more expensive in the years to come relative to renewable energy

How climate change affects ASEAN affairs
'ASEAN has a big role to play as a conduit for regional and global cooperation to address climate change'

UN climate envoys agree on way forward, despite Trump
(UPDATED) Closing two weeks of talks, negotiators agree in the early hours of Saturday, November 18, to hold a stocktake in 2018 of national efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions

Legarda at COP23: 'We have to do both the difficult and the impossible'
'The window of opportunity on achieving the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement is fast closing and any delay will result in the irreversible,' says Senator Loren Legarda as she delivers the Philippine statement

Merkel, Macron to front diplomatic push at UN climate talks
The leaders of France and Germany will lead a diplomatic charge to reinvigorate UN climate talks clouded by Washington's rejection of the Paris Agreement

Scientists warn of 'giant leap backward' at climate talks
CO2 emissions, flat since 2014, are forecast to rise 2% in 2017, dashing hopes they had peaked, scientists report at 12-day negotiations in the German city of Bonn ending Friday

EU to cut car emissions to meet climate targets
The proposal has to be approved by the 28 member states and the European Parliament

Syria to join Paris climate pact, isolating U.S.
(UPDATED) The United States mocks Syria's arrival in the climate change agreement, side-stepping the charge that it has isolated itself by being the world's sole hold-out

Trump 'not invited' to Paris climate summit
'For now, President Donald Trump is not invited,' says an aide to French President Emmanuel Macron, while noting that representatives of the US government would attend

COP23: Plea for 'urgent action' on climate shadowed by Trump
The concern is more whether other leaders who were already reluctant to foreswear fossil fuels as the main engine of economic growth for their countries will lose resolve

Tiny Fiji looks for global impact at Bonn climate talks
Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama brings a sobering message as he presides over UN climate talks in Bonn this week

UNEP: 'We need to speed up' on climate change
'The train has left the station, the train is speeding up, but we need to speed up more,' says United Nations Environment Programme head Erik Solheim

Bring politics of biodiversity at same level as climate change – UNEP
'Every other nation [has] accepted the climate message, and we should be at the same place by 2020 with biodiversity,' says United Nations Environment Programme head Erik Solheim at an international wildlife conference in Manila

Nicaragua signs Paris climate agreement – official
The announcement leaves the United States and Syria as the only countries holding out on the Paris deal

U.S. says no change in decision to pull out of Paris climate pact
The remark come as environment ministers from some 30 countries gather in Montreal seeking headway on the Paris climate accord

Al Gore's Climate Reality Project names Pinoy 'Media Climate Champions'
For communicating climate reality journalists Howie Severino GMA 7 Imelda Abano PNEJ Atom Araullo ABS CBN and Voltaire Tupaz Rappler are recognized at the premiere screening of the documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to power on Monday August 28

The power of truth: The U.S., Philippines, and the Paris Agreement
Climate change is too big an issue for us to allow one country to hold the global community hostage and paralyzed in inaction Fortunately the world at the G20 summit didn’t have to be told

U.S. to join climate talks despite Paris accord exit
The State Department says Washington is still committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and engaging with the international community on combating climate change

Slim chance of reaching 2ºC climate goal – study
There is a 5 chance of limiting average global warming to under two degrees Celsius 3 6 degrees Fahrenheit the target set in the 2015 climate rescue Paris Agreement researchers say

G20: Compromise on climate change, but at what cost?
G20 countries manage to avoid a total bust up with Donald Trump over climate change leaving the door open for Washington to return to the Paris Agreement

Erdogan threatens not to ratify Paris climate accord
Erdogan: After that step taken by America the position that we adopt is in the direction of not passing it in parliament

Climate: Can G19 hold firm against Trump's G1?
The G20 group of major economies gathers in Hamburg amid a storm of geopolitical crises threatening to push climate change down the agenda

As Trump ditches Paris, California leads on environment
Meeting Xi Jinping in China Governor Jerry Brown steps up as the global face of progressive climate policy in the US

U.S. mayors bypass Trump to back Paris climate goals
President Trump s disappointing decision to withdraw from the agreement will actually have the opposite effect in terms of execution the mayor of Atlanta says

France pledges $34 million for foreign climate experts
French officials have decided to set up a priority research program for the fight against climate change says the environment ministry
