A complex international two-week-long game of climate change poker is convening. The stakes? Just the fate of an ever-warming world. Curbing and coping with climate change's worsening heat, floods, droughts and storms will cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don't have it,

The climate talks often have the star power of a soccer World Cup, but many big names and powerful countries are noticeably absent. That includes the top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting countries.

Amid the United Nations' annual climate summit on Wednesday, nations from across the globe detailed extreme weather they face.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders who did show up that the world is seeing “a master class in climate destruction" in a year virtually certain to be hottest on record.

The United Nations' annual climate conference continues Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small.

World leaders have converged on the United Nations annual climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, though some major figures are missing.

World leaders converged Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference with plenty of big names and powerful countries noticeably absent.

But 2024's climate talks are more like the International Chess Federation world championship, lacking recognizable names but big on nerd power and strategy. The top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting countries will not appear.