The big-ticket item at this year’s UN climate summit (COP29) is setting a new finance goal that replaces the collective $100 billion per year developed countries provide and mobilize for climate ...

Whether you use “Third World” or “Developing” to describe a certain country, both terms mean the same thing: poor. But it didn’t always mean that. During World War I, First World was used to refer to ...

The climate crisis is escalating at an alarming rate, causing devastation around the world — especially in countries that contribute little to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Coping with climate ...

Held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 31 March to 1 April 2026, the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Mid-Term Review of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (2022–2031) brought together ...

The majority of developed countries are paying less than 50% of their “fair share” towards biodiversity finance, according to new analysis. These nations contributed less than $11bn in total in 2022, ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan—A few dozen miles from the United Nations climate conference here, a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates recently opened the region’s largest solar-power park. Nearby, a ...

Developing countries need oil and gas resources to meet their needs for affordable and reliable energy, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be incentivized to transition to cleaner forms of ...