During the COP26 conference, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua announce that the United States and China have reached an agreement on combating climate change. 2021-11-10
Men from the Kalaw Lagaw Ya Indigenous Australian community sue the Australian Government in the Federal Court over the impacts of climate change on the Torres Strait Islands. 2021-10-27
The European Council agrees to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, compared to levels in 1990, by at least 55% before 2030. 2020-12-11
The decision to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport is found to be unlawful by the Court of Appeal because the British government did not take into account its commitments under the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. 2020-02-27
Dozens of climate activists surround the offices of American investment management company BlackRock in central Paris and vandalize the building, demanding they disinvest from the fossil fuel industry. 2020-02-10
Washington Governor Jay Inslee announces he will join the Democratic Party primaries in 2020 and cites fighting climate change as a reason. 2019-03-1
U.S. President Donald Trump confirms that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. 2017-06-1
Carbon emissions from energy use reached a record level in 2010, up 5% from the previous record in 2008, according to the International Energy Agency, which said it was a "serious setback" to limit global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), set at the U.N. climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico, last year. 2011-05-31
The United States Senate defeated a measure that would have banned the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (United States). The new regulations which began being applied early this year affect air polluters such as power plants and oil refineries, attempts to address climate change mitigation. 2011-04-6