Climate Change

As extreme weather intensifies, companies like Samsung, Toshiba, and Alibaba must commit to renewable energy.

The new U.N. climate report confirms that significantly higher global temperatures are now a near-term certainty. National security planning needs to take a warmer, less stable world into account.

Given its location, embrace of green technologies, and reputation for transparency, Singapore could offer a stable foundation for a global carbon market.

If indeed there does exist a pathway out of global climate governance gridlock, the answer does not lie at the feet of authoritarian monoliths.

The hard political choices involved in phasing out coal and reducing emissions are the most important, and also the most often elided, element.

Climate-vulnerable nations are calling on rich countries to deliver the $100 billion per annum they promised years ago as climate finance.

Any move to jettison coal power will likely face opposition from the country's powerful domestic coal lobby.

We cannot save the “pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known” without spurring China -- and ourselves -- to action.

China's decarbonization plans must begin with its steel sector, which contributes 15 percent of its total carbon emissions.

In addition to the Pacific Island states, the SALPIE initiative covers island nations in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, which share climate change and COVID-19 concerns.

The American defense establishment, central in the U.S. political imagination, must be leveraged to meet the gravest long-term national security threat the country faces.

Local NGOs bring aid to flood and landslide-affected communities in Central Vietnam.