CLIMATE CHANGE

Emissions and rising temperatures are already having a devastating impact on the continent, where nations lack resources to confront the impacts of climate change.

According to a new survey, over the past decade, climate change has forced a large number of people from three Pacific island nations -- Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru -- to flee their countries.

According to a new report by Oxfam, the poorest half of the world — approximately 3.5 billion people — are responsible for only 10 percent of all carbon emissions.

Tuesday's resolutions to block President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan were approved largely along party lines.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivered an optimistic speech Tuesday at the Paris climate talks before leaving France.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied Putin's accusations, saying he'll leave office if they are proved true.

With world leaders in Paris talking about climate change, a look at whether or not the discussion may meet environmentalists expectation and how investors may profit.

The Eiffel Tower lights up with messages of hope during the international climate conference hosted by France.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the “rich world” should not expect developing countries to share equal responsibilities on climate change.

With COP21 set to begin in Paris, representatives from less developed countries worry that their needs will be ignored in the hunt for a deal.

Participants at the Paris climate change summit will be under pressure to avoid repeating the failure of the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen.

Ahead of the COP 21 conference, scheduled to begin Monday, activists want world leaders to do more to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit warming.

Japan, one of the world’s top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases, has pledged to assist emerging economies to the tune of $10.6 billion a year by 2020.

Parisians have been asked not drive their cars ahead of the COP21 climate summit, and protests ahead of the event have been banned.

The continent requires $5 billion to $10 billion of investment per year to adapt to a 2-degree Celsius increase in temperatures, the World Bank said.

If world leaders gathering in Paris next week resolve to contain global warming, energy companies would need to abandon huge capital spending projects, a report finds.

Storms and other disasters have been linked to 600,000 deaths and more than $1,9 trillion in economic losses in recent years, the United Nations says.

U.S. President Barack Obama is championing urgent measures on climate change, ahead of a global meet in Paris.

The Chinese president spoke after Barack Obama at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation event in Manila Wednesday, before Obama was scheduled to meet the leaders of other TPP countries.

With terrorism a more urgent concern ahead of the Paris climate conference, global leaders may have more resolve than ever to agree on aggressive action.

A new study looking at the impact of the shrinking snowpacks over the northern hemisphere suggests that over 2 billion people could suffer from water shortage.