Asia-Pacific climate change

“All in all, vulnerable countries lamented that [COP29] was a lost opportunity for collective action and the outcome did not reflect a meaningful agreement on climate finance.”

Across Asia and the Pacific, a new generation is attending the U.N. climate change conference to make their voices heard. These are some of their stories.

Decentralized and community-led zero waste practices are a low-hanging fruit in addressing the climate crisis.

Cutting funding to multilateral efforts that confront climate change globally is shortsighted. When we help others, no matter how many miles away, we learn how to help ourselves.

Developed nations need to take four concrete steps at COP28 to advance the renewable energy transformation in the Asia-Pacific.

Climate change in the Indo-Pacific will have a very real impact on the outcome of any potential great power conflict within the region.

We are now facing not just a climate crisis, but also an inequality crisis. COP27 must address both challenges by financing a just climate transition.

When it comes to cutting emissions, there is low-hanging fruit ripe for the picking. These Asia-Pacific countries show how to do it.

Asian and Pacific countries’ climate ambitions will determine if the region – indeed the world – has any hope of keeping the temperature increase well below 2 degrees.

12 Asian countries will have their leaders speak at Biden's first big (virtual) event. Others are feeling snubbed.

As climate action becomes a question of geopolitical competition, the world’s major economies look ready to finally take serious steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change is likely to alter the local physical and strategic environment profoundly, and potentially catastrophically.