Carbon Trading, Warming Urgency on Tap for Madrid Climate Talks

The annual United Nations climate talks kick off Dec. 2 in Madrid, where for the next two weeks negotiators will hammer out details of how countries will put the Paris Agreement into action and attempt to prevent climate change from spiraling out of control.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to converge on the Spanish capital through Dec. 13 for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP 25, which begins less than a week after the U.N. Environment Program released an urgent report showing that the globe is far off track from the benchmarks set just four years ...