Economies are growing rapidly across the developing world, which is producing a dramatic increase in energy demand. A central challenge facing leaders at COP27 this week is how to meet that growing demand — and deliver electricity to the nearly 1 billion people who still lack it — while also phasing out the power source that is a primary driver of climate change and a major cause of sickness and disease: coal plants.

By voting “yes” on Proposition 31, Californians have taken a big step toward ending the nation’s teen vaping epidemic.

World leaders arrive in Egypt for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, amid a year of record-setting heat, floods and other extreme weather. And with new data showing 96 percent of the world’s population is living through unprecedented temperatures, no place is spared.

The FAST-Infra Group (Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition-Infrastructure) announced that it has chosen Bloomberg L.P. and the Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) to serve respectively as the Data Repository and Secretariat of the FAST-Infra Sustainable Infrastructure® (FISI) Label, following a thorough and competitive selection process.

Imagine a traveler setting off for an unfamiliar destination without a map or GPS to follow. Or a scientist without any data to verify their observations. Each is determined to succeed, but without relevant and reliable information to guide the way, both are likely to flounder and fail. In the fight against climate change, the same problem has plagued the private sector’s embrace of net zero emissions, but that is about to change.

The attempted kidnapping of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — in which a delusional, hammer-wielding assailant broke into her home and left her husband, Paul, severely wounded — was a heinous and despicable act that reflects an increasingly toxic US political culture. But it reflects something else, too: a nation that leads the developed world in murder.

We have lost a giant of New York: Rev. Calvin Butts III, who took the idea of building the Kingdom of God literally.

The American private sector innovates and produces like no other nation in the world. And with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the challenges it presents to democracies around the world, there is renewed urgency to finding ways to quickly leverage U.S. innovation and ingenuity to defend our values at home and abroad.

The Climate Data Steering Committee unveiled recommendations on the design of a new open-data utility, the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU), and how it should address data gaps, inconsistencies, and inaccessibility that slow climate action. The recommendations were agreed today on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly and will be issued for public consultation until October 20, 2022.

Throughout her life, Queen Elizabeth II personified duty: to her family, to her country, and to the world.