Even before Donald Trump’s election, global climate action faced challenges. You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

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,

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

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.

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 President-elect Trump’s second term

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.

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

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 Santa Fe Dreamers Project is celebrating its 10-year anniversary while gearing up for a likely hostile administration.

The fact that voters in Washington state soundly defeated (62% to 38%) a ballot question affirming one of the most progressive climate laws in the country, during an election that many pundits said was a referendum on inflation, bodes well for continued progress on state and local climate action during Donald Trump’s second presidential term.