BRUSSELS (Reuters) -China's new climate pledge "falls well short" and will make it harder to reach global targets to slow climate change, the European Union's climate chief said on Thursday, as the ...

It was a revealing answer: China, unlike many other countries, tends not to make climate commitments that it doesn't understand or intend to keep. And that's why its latest pledge —cutting greenhouse ...

Kim Sung-hwan, center, the inaugural head of South Korea's new Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment, applauds after he made the announcement of South Korea joining the Powering Past Coal ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is promising to shrink its reliance on coal power as part of its pledge to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change, but that ambition is at odds ...