At Newsweek's "Pillars of the Green Transition" event at COP29, panelists talked climate finance and the coming shift in U.S. policy in a second Trump term.

President Joe Biden’s climate law is on the chopping block as Republicans prepare to have full control in Washington.

Let’s not sugarcoat things. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a setback for climate action. The incoming administration has been very clear that it does not prioritize confronting climate change,

Four counties in Florida that voted for Trump also voted to conserve open space, reduce flood damage and protect habitat

Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), two of the Senate’s most aggressive advocates for action on climate change, said Friday that the second Trump presidency will be a major setback for that action but expressed confidence there would still be opportunities for progress.

The Democratic candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission made climate change an issue, but it did them no good in this year's election.

President-elect Donald Trump. Photos: Getty Images.

The timing of Donald Trump’s election victory, a few days before the opening of the COP29 global climate conference, could not have been worse, casting a long shadow over the 50,000 delegates gathered in Baku.

Republicans aren’t a monolith, as 54 percent of them say they support the U.S. participating in international efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, and 60 and 70 percent, respectively, say they want more wind and solar farms. Younger Republicans in particular are also less supportive of expanding fossil fuels, Pew Research surveys show.

The election result bodes well for state and local action on climate—even during a second Trump term. It’s no secret that this year’s election results don’t bode well for the climate, as Donald Trump has promised to gut federal regulations and roll back recent progress at the national level.

For climate activists, the current moment is almost unbearably bleak. But the task is clear: to build a mass movement that completely overhauls our current political system.

White House climate adviser John Podesta on Monday sought to reassure the world that the U.S. would move forward on combating climate change despite the election of President-elect Trump, who has