Most countries failed to submit national emissions plans to the United Nations, suggesting that the global framework for ...

Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the United Nations' climate chief calls “among the most important ...

Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, laid out priorities ahead of annual climate talks in November, and encouraged countries to prepare stronger ...

Many of the world's biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global ...

Nearly all nations missed a UN deadline Monday to submit new targets for slashing carbon emissions, including major economies ...

UN climate chief Simon Stiell has called this latest round of national pledges "the most important policy documents of this century". Yet just a handful of major polluters handed in upgraded ...

The world's largest economy withdrew from the Paris agreement on Trump's orders. The vast majority of countries who signed the agreement failed to update their climate plans on time.

U.N. Climate Secretary Simon Stiell said that more than 170 countries have told his office they are working on their national plans, so he’s not worried. He emphasized quality over timeliness.

U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell said last week most countries have indicated they will still produce their plans this year. “Countries are taking this extremely seriously, which isn’t ...