International efforts to tackle climate change suffered a major setback when Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris agreement aimed at curbing rising temperatures. Can the European Union, which has restated its commitment to the pact, play a global leadership role to effect change?
Climate change
Tackling global warming
Tropical fish swim into Europe’s waters as common species head north
As climate change heats the oceans, cod, sole and plaice are heading to cooler waters -- with profound potential consequences for fish stocks and European consumers
Germany reaches 100 bn euro climate plan deal as protests heat up
German Chancellor Merkel's government reaches a deal on a broad climate plan for the country that commits at least 100 billion euros by 2030 to environmental protection
New EU Commission faces turning climate pledges into reality
The next European Commission has made an ambitious, global-leading fight against climate change the centrepiece of its mandate
Paris promises: where the world’s biggest polluters stand
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has convened a major climate summit on September 23 because the world's main polluters remain well behind their 2015 Paris Agreement goals
The long road to clean energy
Can green energy curb climate change, which is accelerating at an alarming pace?
New ‘balanced’ EU executive team unveiled
The incoming EU Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has made climate policy, digital technology and rekindling Europe's economy core ambitions for the next five years