President Joe Biden speak about his work to lower planet-warming pollution in the US and create clean energy jobs while saving Americans money.

By Valerie Volcovici and Kate Abnett (Reuters) - Countries have a chance to use this week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance,

"The climate world is looking at the U.S. election and thinking, 'We can't really afford another rollback,'" Climate Group CEO Helen Clarkson told Newsweek.

Voters increasingly consider extreme weather a leading reason to address climate change. But those views vary across the political spectrum.

Many states whose projects to combat climate change have been approved say they’re urging the feds to issue their funding before the election.

Paula Newton speaks with David Suzuki, one of Canada’s best known scientists and environmental educators, and Bodhi Patil, a leading Gen-Z climate activist about the escalating threat of climate change.

New York Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly, both of which begin next week, have outsize importance this year given their timing before two blockbuster events: The contest between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, followed by global climate talks in Azerbaijan known as COP29, six days later.

Countries could use next week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.S. election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next U.

Hanging over them all is the specter of Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House.

Climate change came across as an afterthought in the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump last week. At 92 minutes into the debate, ABC News anchor Linsey Davis asked the sole question addressing it directly, with answers from Harris and Trump lasting less than three minutes.

The event, “Unite for America,” was hosted by Winfrey and drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, bolstering a strategy that Harris’s campaign sees as crucial to reaching voters in battleground states and beyond in November.