climate change

Delegates are expected to stay up late into the night at the UN climate summit, and rumors are swirling that baby steps are being taken towards a legally-binding climate change deal by 2015.

The outcome of the Copenhagen conference shows where investors are likely to see profits -- and costs -- from global warming over the next decade.

Author and economist Lord Nicholas Stern talks with Kai Ryssdal about the costs of fighting climate change, what happens if we do nothing, and how the U.S. can get more investing in clean tech.

The health care debate is putting climate change on the back burner, which means the U.S. may not pass a law to cut down greenhouse gas emissions anytime soon.

Commentator Dan Esty says that's a cop out.

Most of the big things Barack Obama hopes to get done - health-care reform, slowing climate change - would have a big economic impact over the long run.

But the administration's plan to reshape financial regulation, outlined in an 88-page Treasury report in June, could have an immediate effect on your wallet.

Sustainability reporter Sarah Gardner talks with Kai Ryssdal about how the G8's indecision over climate change could impact America's own legislation for greenhouse gas reductions.

The fifth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, September 22-25, will focus on four major global challenges: education, energy and climate change, global health, and poverty alleviation....

The Congressional Budget Office says a proposed cap and trade bill to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will cost $22 billion a year by 2020.

Sarah Gardner reports this gives supporters of the bill some ammunition.

As the U.S. grapples with its first climate change bill, commentator Todd Buccholz says it could learn a lot from China's ambitious climate agenda and its stimulus plan.

The Obama administration has been counting on big revenues from its climate change plans from selling permits for carbon emissions.

But commentator David Frum says the way Congress works, the money will end up in utility companies' coffers.