Countries could use next week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.S. election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next U.

Many states whose projects to combat climate change have been approved say they’re urging the feds to issue their funding before the election.

Paula Newton speaks with David Suzuki, one of Canada’s best known scientists and environmental educators, and Bodhi Patil, a leading Gen-Z climate activist about the escalating threat of climate change.

Voters increasingly consider extreme weather a leading reason to address climate change. But those views vary across the political spectrum.

New York Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly, both of which begin next week, have outsize importance this year given their timing before two blockbuster events: The contest between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, followed by global climate talks in Azerbaijan known as COP29, six days later.

Countries could use next week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.S. election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next U.

The event, “Unite for America,” was hosted by Winfrey and drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, bolstering a strategy that Harris’s campaign sees as crucial to reaching voters in battleground states and beyond in November.

Government officials and corporate executives at Climate Week — a flurry of policy panels, closed-door meetings, environmental activism and glitzy product launches — are gathering six weeks ahead of an American election that could undermine the global fight against rising temperatures, Zack Colman and Sara Schonhardt report.

Many states' plans are backed by federal money from the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate law passed by Congress in 2022. But former President Donald Trump, who has called climate change measures a “scam” and vowed to rescind “unspent” funds under the law,

California officials cut billions from ambitious climate programs to offset an unexpected budget deficit. Now they hope voters approve a multibillion-dollar bond to fill the gap.