'New record adds to disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe,' top climate official says of data

Questions over whether Paris Agreement's aspirational target can be met as UN's first comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change since 2014 to be released Monday

Goals commit state to slashing net global warming gas emissions by 85% by 2050, relative to 2015; Greenpeace: Unambitious aims 'a disgrace'

Proposal includes targets for a 96 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in transportation, 85 percent in electricity sector and 92 percent in municipal waste

Environmental, civil society organizations demand bolder moves from government to cut greenhouse gas emissions, as environment and energy ministries fight over targets

Netanyahu says Israel committed to successful transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050

President-elect has vowed to bring US back into Paris climate agreement that Trump exited, while Democrats have set 2050 as a target to make country carbon-neutral

Move isolates Washington, but has no immediate impact on international efforts to curb global warming; 189 countries still committed to agreement

During 50th annual Earth Day, environmental activists hope to get climate change back on the world's coronavirus-dominated agenda as UN warns no time to lose

After scientists warned catastrophe may be rapidly becoming unavoidable, a teenage girl led young activists to force governments to start paying attention