Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

Despite some new pledges, UN gathering to accelerate action on climate change produced few positive surprises from the most-polluting nations

Featured in: Climate Action Summit 2019

U.N. climate summit exposes struggle to ditch fossil-fuel 'status quo'

Will the growing calls of young people for climate action bring an end to business as usual? After lacklustre U.N. gathering, the jury is still out

Featured in: Climate Action Summit 2019

FACTBOX: 12 global initiatives to beat back climate threats

From less coal to greener investment and support for vulnerable farmers, a look at some of the proposals at the U.N. Climate Action Summit

Featured in: Climate Action Summit 2019

U.N. plans vast urban forests to fight climate change

The U.N. plans to work with Britain's Kew Royal Botanic Gardens to grow forests in 90 cities across 30 countries in Africa and Asia

From Indonesia to Gabon, countries turn to nature to cut climate risks

"There is a wealth of evidence ... that if we restore, protect and enhance ecosystems, they will lower human vulnerability to climate change," said Oxford University zoologist

Featured in: Climate Action Summit 2019

Poorest people getting world's small change to cope with climate crisis

Research from Oxfam shows vulnerable communities are receiving a pittance to help them adapt to worsening wild weather and rising seas

Featured in: Climate Action Summit 2019

Young climate activists seek step up from streets to political table

"The decisions about our future are still being made largely without us," activist says

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

Human rights threats in warming world could speed up climate action

From migration to hunger, climate change is driving violations of human rights - and focusing on that may be a way to win faster climate action

Featured in: Legal action on climate change

On the ground at the Global Climate Strikes

We gathered voices and images from climate protests around the world

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

Colombian cities gather green speed with electric buses

Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, introduced the country's first fleet of electric buses earlier this month, with 26 now circulating in the southwestern city of 2.5 million people

In Costa Rica, indigenous farmers change along with the climate

Adapting age-old traditions to new climate realities is a tough challenge, but some farmers are trying to use their land more efficiently as erratic weather hurts harvests

Featured in: Farmers adapt to climate change

* Feel free to republish the stories above as long as credit is given to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Young climate activists accuse world leaders' of violating child rights through inaction

The complaint accuses Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey of knowing about the impact of their carbon emissions on the climate and doing nothing to mitigate it

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

National governments urged to get behind cities to win climate fight

Cities are vital to limit global warming because they are home to more than half the world's population and generate three-quarters of carbon emissions

Featured in: Climate change and cities

Bangladesh rural families shoulder costs of coping with climate change

Analysis of spending to protect households against climate disasters and clean up afterwards, from global to local levels, shows poor citizens are paying the most

Featured in: Climate finance

INTERVIEW-Funding injection needed to stop poor farmers' climate pain spreading

Worsening droughts and floods have already slashed crop yields, as the planet warms, and farmers need more help to stop them leaving their land, warns research network head

INTERVIEW-It's not just the Amazon: Indonesia urged to stop deadly fires

Indonesia and its neighbours are regularly hit by smog from slash-and-burn clearance of land and forests for agriculture, causing premature deaths and respiratory infections

In Pakistan's warming mountains, farmers fish for a new living

As erratic rains and rising temperatures make traditional crops harder to grow, the government is backing cold-water fish farming as a good source of income and nutrition

Featured in: Farmers adapt to climate change

OPINION: Why we support the global climate strikes

As mayors, we have a unique opportunity to bestow a bright and hopeful legacy to the next generation. This is the future we want

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

OPINION: How to cool down as the world warms up fast

For over 1 billion people, their ability to survive and thrive is undermined without access to sustainable cooling

Featured in: Rising heat

OPINION: Africa is caught in the crossfire of climate change and conflict

Limiting climate change through a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the only way to avert the most disastrous consequences, and to limit forced displacement