In addition to international stakes, states and cities face additionally challenges to acting autonomously this time around.

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at the AI boom’s water problem and stabilized funding for the California ...

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said she was proud of the way U.S. mayors took the lead on climate issues as the White House ...

President Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from several global initiatives during his second term in office so far, including, most recently, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

On Jan 7, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating climate change. He said it was because the ...

Jan 12, 2026 // Our institutions are not collapsing—they are misaligned with reality, being designed for isolated shocks ...

The United States — the largest source of historical emissions and top user and producer of oil and gas — will stand as the ...

And governments would still confront the same physical, engineering, and economic constraints that no treaty can repeal. That ...

Donald Trump came to power for the second time on January 20, 2025. He has since moved aggressively across immigration, ...

The past three years have been the hottest on record, marked by deadly and costly wildfires and flooding. Even as scientists ...

Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have ...

The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep ...