Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Priyanka Mahat is a ...

Later this century, sometime toward my teenage son’s late middle age, climate change might torch 50 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. I’ll say that again. Sometime around 2070–2090, ...

New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters. By David Gelles As stocks gyrate in response to ...

As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change, a growing body of evidence suggests that taking bold action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can have significant economic benefits. In ...

The scientific journal Nature retracted an influential paper that overestimated the economic toll of climate change – but not until after central banks around the world had used it to create risk ...

As South Asia faces the escalating impacts of climate change, the region’s ability to respond effectively hinges on more than just access to climate finance and technical solutions. A critical yet ...

COP30, a U.N. conference on tackling global warming, had to be evacuated because the venue caught fire. The fire was not even the biggest problem at the meeting, which brought together around 200 ...