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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at an Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp in London, Britain, June 27, 2024. (AP/Kin Cheung)
January 24, 2025, 10:08 am
Michael Bloomberg steps in again to fund UN climate body in response to Trump moves
In repeat of 2017, billionaire former mayor of New York vows support for Framework Convention on Climate Change after new US president cuts funding, pulls out of Paris accords
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Tammy Gannot Rosenstreich
December 25, 2019, 12:24 pm
Tammy Gannot Rosenstreich
Israel’s appalling inaction on climate change
Governments worldwide are ignoring this dire threat. If Israeli leaders think they can too, they should step outdoors and look up
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a press conference on the second day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017. (AFP/Tobias Schwarz)
July 9, 2017, 2:06 am
Erdogan threatens not to ratify Paris climate accord
At G20, Turkish president indicates Ankara may follow in Washington’s footsteps, pull out of agreement
By AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures aboard the high seas emergency tow vessel "Abeille Bourbon", near Lorient on June 1, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Damien MEYER)
June 2, 2017, 1:43 am
Incensed Europe to Trump: Climate pact ‘not renegotiable’
French president says ‘the US has turned its back on the world’ by exiting Paris accords; environmental groups dismayed
By AFP
Protesters hold up signs during a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington, DC on June 1, 2017, objecting to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate accord. (AFP PHOTO / PAUL J. RICHARDS)
June 2, 2017, 12:44 am
US Jewish groups slam Trump’s pullout from climate accords
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism calls move a ‘morally reprehensible’ abdication of responsibility
By JTA
US President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on May 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
May 9, 2017, 11:44 pm
Trump delays decision on Paris climate deal
President won’t announce whether Washington will honor or walk away from pact until after Israel, Europe tour
By AFP
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the movement’s biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (Courtesy URJ)
May 9, 2017, 11:17 pm
Reform movement urges Trump not to pull out of climate pact
American Jewish World Service, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life join 20 other religious groups in petitioning president
By JTA
Members of International delegations pose for a group photo outside the COP22 climate conference on November 18, 2016, in Marrakesh, Morocco. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
November 18, 2016, 9:08 pm
UN climate conference to Trump: ‘We count on your pragmatism’
‘International community is engaged in major battle for the future of our planet,’ Moroccan FM tells envoys gathered in Marrakesh
By AFP
An Ecoppia robot cleaning-crew system (Courtesy)
December 13, 2015, 8:09 pm
Israeli robot-cleaning system promises brighter future for solar power
A part of the Israeli delegation to COP 21 in France, Ecoppia’s technology can help make solar more cost-effective, say top energy officials
By David Shamah
An activist joins others to form a giant red line during a demonstration near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on December 12, 2015, as a proposed 195-nation accord on climate change is presented at a UN conference in Le Bourget. (AFP PHOTO/ALAIN JOCARD)
December 12, 2015, 4:07 pm
Top scientist praises draft of Paris climate pact
Greenpeace hails accord as turning point, while activists protesting in French capital brand it ‘unacceptable’
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, board a plane to Paris on November 30, 2015, where the Israeli leader is set to meet with a host of world leaders on the sidelines of a climate conference. (Raphael Ahren/The Times of Israel)
November 30, 2015, 5:19 am
Netanyahu heads to Paris for marathon meetings with world leaders
Joining 150 heads of government at climate conference, PM to meet with presidents of France, Russia, and counterparts from India, Japan, Canada, Australia and Holland
By Raphael Ahren
Boys look at a hot air balloon of the environmental group Greenpeace, near the Eiffel Tower ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
November 29, 2015, 7:45 am
Hollande, activists gear up for critical climate talks
World leaders prepare to converge on terror-struck Paris to hammer out broadest deal ever on global warming
By Thomas Adamson
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