Facing intense vulnerability to sea-level rise, Miami is in the midst of a long-term effort to harden neighborhoods and infrastructure against flooding. The city is issuing $400 million in debt — known as Miami Forever Bonds — to finance climate adaptation and other projects. The plan relies on property taxes to repay the bonds.

Partisan gerrymandering in California could carve up a Republican climate science skeptic’s district and feed it to a top Democratic climate hawk, and it’s now prompting a war of words from both lawmakers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at the Trump administration during his guest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night.

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, intended to curb lending to carbon-intensive sectors, wasn’t effective and more importantly never made much business sense.

California govenor rails against president’s ‘absurdity’ while also sounding the alarm over his ‘authoritarian actions’ in his state and beyond

Internationally, wavering commitments from key Western polluters, most sharply the United States and, to a lesser extent, the European Union, also affect China’s willingness to act boldly. In the absence of Western leadership, its self-interested approach tends to become more pronounced.

The French president has joined Poland, Italy and Hungary to stall discussions ahead of the COP30 climate conference in November.