December served up a warning of the massive challenges ahead for the European Union.

Countries have procrastinated for too long and need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately, or risk missing agreed targets for limiting global warming, top United Nations officials said Tuesday.

In one of the corners of New York that city officials consider most vulnerable to climate change, some residents voiced little concern about the Trump administration's plan to begin formally withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Now that the U.S. has begun the process of withdrawing, what does that mean for Canada and other countries who are still a part of the agreement?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he submitted a formal notice to the United Nations.

Only one in eight of the world's most polluting companies are on track to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with global temperature goals.

The report says the increase in natural gas is driven largely by the North American fracking boom, which changed the industry about 11 years ago.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the political will to fight climate change seems to be fading at the same time as things are getting worse for those feeling the effects.

Canada is still 79 million tonnes of greenhouse gases shy of hitting its existing promise to cut emissions.

After two weeks of talks in the Polish city of Katowice, nations finally reached consensus on a more detailed framework for the 2015 Paris Agreement.