A goal of 100 GW in solar energy is a bold undertaking, says U.N. official.

The team of experts from the United Nations arrived at the Sundarbans on Monday to investigate the place of the oil spill.

Major questions persist over how rich countries will boost funding for poorer nations to tackle climate change in the next five years, after U.N.

Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week.

TO GET to the tent city in the grounds of Peru’s defence ministry, where UN climate talks are being held between December 1st and 12th, delegates and hangers-on must pass an assault course.

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urges delegates to work towards achieving a historic pact in Paris in 2015.

Europe’s leaders are about to consign the Earth to the risk of dangerous climate change, a UN expert says.

Sending a strong signal to rich nations that India will not dilute its position while negotiating for a climate deal, India has told the UN Climate Summit that it was the West's fossil fuelled mode

In a blow to American hopes of reaching an international deal to fight global warming, India’s new environment minister said Wednesday that his country would not offer a plan to cut its greenhouse

The widow of Nelson Mandela punctured the self-congratulatory mood of the UN summit on Tuesday, saying world leaders had failed to rise to the challenge of climate change.

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