New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters.

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Given the Trump administration’s recent moves relating to climate, the former vice president is looking to the developing world for the next generation of climate activism.

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In his first few weeks, President Trump has frozen climate spending, shaken up staffing at agencies like the E.P.A. and set off a wave of legal challenges.

Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.

Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question.

On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what this decision means for the rest of the world.

C.E.O.s, policymakers and billionaires at the World Economic Forum’s conference have long pledged to fight climate change. Has it done any good?

Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.

Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.

Sheila Morovati’s Pacific Palisades home was spared, but her neighborhood was decimated in the Los Angeles fires. For her, climate change looms over the tragic losses.

Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.

Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.