Vanessa Nakate

Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts.

Heads of state, finance leaders and activists from around the world will converge in Paris this week to seek ways to overhaul the world's development banks — like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank — and help them weather a warmer and stormier world.

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg slammed corporate bigwigs meeting in Davos, Switzerland for “fuelling the destruction of the planet” by investing in fossil fuels and prioritizing short-term profits over people affected by the climate crisis.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry indicated on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, he'll be in talks with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks underway in Egypt, in the latest sign of improving relations between the world's top two polluters after a meeting between the two nations' leaders Monday.

The new UNICEF goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for the climate crisis.

Vanessa Nakate's climate activism over the past three years has propelled her to the world stage.

Climate activists are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline that is primed to transport oil from the Hoima oilfields in Uganda to the Tanzanian coastal city of Tanga.

When it comes to fighting for the planet, the young have the loudest voice — and they’re making sure those in power hear it.

Nakate spoke of her disappointment in the outcome of the U.N. climate talks in Scotland and what she and other young activists plan for the year to come.

A Ugandan activist channeled the fears of many young people and vulnerable countries at Thursday's, November 11, 2021, U.N. climate talks in Glasgow that world leaders won't take the action needed to prevent potentially lethal levels of global warming.

Barack Obama expressed confidence at U.N. climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.

Within industry, elected to government, and at the heart of their communities, women are organizing locally and transnationally to protect the planet and the future. And a new push was launched this week at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies made a compromise commitment on Sunday, October 31, 2021 to reach carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day summit that was laying the groundwork for the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the United Nations summit.

Youth activists are hoping to turn up the heat on governments on Friday, September 24, 2021, with the first large-scale international protest against climate change in six months.