Kenya has broken ground on a major renewable energy project for the country and for the African continent as a whole. The Lake Turkana Wind Power project will be the largest in Africa and is expected to provide around 17 percent of Kenya’s power demand.

Economies will grow while carbon emissions shrink -- as long as international commitment to clean development is strong, according to a newly released report from the New Climate Economy. Our Tree Alert has more.

Last Thursday the UN's Human Rights Council sent a strong signal to the ongoing climate negotiations by adopting by consensus a new resolution on climate change and human rights.

Just weeks before Shell is set to begin drilling, the UN has said it wants the US government to demonstrate it’s fully assessed Shell’s Arctic drilling plan’s impact on the wildlife-rich world heritage site of Wrangel Island before the firm is allowed to drill in the Chukchi Sea.

Thousands of marchers from all walks of life poured into Toronto streets Sunday, urging leaders to put “Jobs, Justice and the Climate” at the forefront of Canada’s political agenda. Our Tree Alert has more.

It will be hard to tot up the carbon cuts in national contributions to a proposed global climate deal, says Morocco’s environment minister Hakima El Haite. Morocco will host a summit on country's climate plans in October.

Twenty major local governments, representing 5% of global emissions, committed to targets to cut emissions Thursday. The announcement fits a growing trend, with 15% percent of the world's largest cities already committed to emissions cuts of at least 70 percent by 2050.

The Norwegian government has selected a total of 5 projects in Brazil and South Africa under its second tender to purchase carbon credits to meet its emission targets, helping prop up ailing demand for carbon-cutting projects.

Land is more than a pile of rocks, says Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner; it has eyes to see people’s greed and punish them.

Pakistan’s commitment to tackling climate change is a “joke” lacking proper funding and support from government officials, says cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.