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

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

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

Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters ...

A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a ...

A United Nations agreement for the “conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity” in the open oceans has ...

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

Even as scientists warn that the pace of global warming is accelerating, President Donald Trump has escalated his retreat ...

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 ...

President Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from several global initiatives during his second term in office so far, including, most recently, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change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

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

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