Climate Treaties

The Chesapeake Bay Program Isn’t Likely to Hit Its 2025 Cleanup Goals. What Happens Next?

A new paper pegs the success of cleanup efforts to recommendations spelled out in the original documents decades ago and the EPA’s willingness to use the enforcement powers of the Clean Water Act.

By Aman Azhar

Developing Countries Say Their Access Difficulties at Bonn Climate Talks Show Justice Issues Obstruct Climate Progress

By Bob Berwyn

Europe’s Swing to the Right Threatens Global Climate Policy

By Bob Berwyn

La otra disputa fronteriza es sobre un tratado de aguas de 80 años

By Martha Pskowski

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

By Martha Pskowski

‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gases From Harming Oceans

By Katie Surma

Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid

By Bob Berwyn

Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land

By Noel Lyn Smith

Headed Toward the Finish Line, Plastics Treaty Delegates ‘Work is Far From Over’

By James Bruggers

In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back

By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine

As Plastic Treaty Delegates Head to Canada, A Plea From the Arctic: Don’t Forget Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples

By James Bruggers

Policy Experts Say the UN Climate Talks Need Reform, but Change Would be Difficult in the Current Political Landscape

By Bob Berwyn

Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Says Climate Change is Real. Is She Proposing Anything to Stop It?

By Phil McKenna

Q&A: In New Hampshire, Nikki Haley Touts Her Role as UN Ambassador in Pulling the US Out of the Paris Climate Accord

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

New Research Explores a Restorative Climate Path for the Earth

By Bob Berwyn

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

The Climate Treadmill Speeds Up At COP28, But Critics Say It’s Still Not Going Anywhere

By Bob Berwyn

Q&A: The Sort of ‘Breakthrough’ Moment Came in Dubai When the Nations of the World Agreed to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Nature Got a More Prominent Place at the Table at COP28

By Bob Berwyn