International

"Amid upbeat green-tech pep talks and notices for happy hours at the annual United Nations COP31 climate change conference on Thursday, two new reports offered a stark reminder of how far the world remains from containing global warming."

"A group of small island states aims to create a fund backed by a charge on money that islanders receive from abroad to eventually raise around $3 billion ​a year for projects to make their nations less vulnerable to climate change."

"North America’s first small modular reactor project is running into two familiar challenges for the nuclear industry: timing and cost."

"Critics say some of the country’s environmental policies run counter to the image it is offering as host of a United Nations climate summit."

"As heads of state and delegates from nearly every nation make their way on Monday to Antalya, Turkey, for the United Nations climate talks, one question hangs over the event: Will it matter?"

"The war in Iran has been very good for renewable energy. More than 40 countries have started or accelerated projects involving wind, solar, electric and other low carbon technologies." ... But the pivot to clean energy is only part of the story. The disruption of a once reliable trade of oil and gas in the Middle East has caused much of the world to double down on fossil fuels in a desperate scramble for secure, and immediate, supplies.