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Rich nations raise COP29 climate finance offer in bid to break deadlock
Developed nations should pay $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries deal with climate change, according to a new draft deal from U.N. climate talks published early on Sunday, after an ...Top stories - NBC News - 4 hours ago -
Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided
The deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with it.. Marching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the ...World - The Guardian - 3 hours ago -
Cop29: $250bn climate finance offer from rich world an insult, critics say
Draft text under fire as poor nations wanted more of the money to come directly from developed countries. Cop29 climate summit – live updates Developing countries have reacted angrily to an ...World - The Guardian - Yesterday -
Poorer nations deride COP29 offer of $250bn to tackle climate change
Independent expert group says amount falls short of $390bn a year needed by 2035 to deal with effects of global warmingWorld - Financial Times - Yesterday -
COP29 Climate Talks Focus on Financing
Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.Science - The New York Times - November 13 -
Cop29 live: Slashing methane emissions is ‘our emergency brake’, UN says
Cop29 presidency announces new drive to cut methane emissions from waste dumps as G20 reaffirms transition from fossil fuels. The UK government has conceded that Australia was mistakenly included ...World - The Guardian - 4 days ago -
‘It is feasible’: climate finance won’t burden rich countries, say economists
Experts say mix of taxes with development bank and private funding can provide $1tn a year needed by 2030. Raising money needed to tackle the climate crisis need not be a burden on overstretched ...World - The Guardian - 4 days ago -
Cop29: which climate finance ideas are most likely to work?
With $1tn a year needed, we analyse how best to fill the gap, from wealth taxes to levies on flying and oil extraction. Countries meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the Cop29 climate summit are under ...World - The Guardian - November 11 -
COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large
The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.Tech - Wired - November 11 -
Cop29 live: ministers told to ‘cut theatrics’, ‘move faster’ and ‘get down to business’ amid growing frustration at slow progress
Cop29 president calls for faster action as progress to agree a climate finance deal slows. Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves How usual is it to have G20 happening at ...World - The Guardian - 5 days ago -
Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms
Outcry after draft text contains only an ‘X’ instead of setting $1tn funding goal to support developing countries. Cop29 climate summit – live updates Hopes of a breakthrough at the ...World - The Guardian - 2 days ago -
They're here to finance climate action. But COP29 is more about bickering.
Nearly 50,000 people from 200 countries were in Azerbaijan for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, with the goal of reaching a climate finance deal.Top stories - NBC News - 18 hours ago -
Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’
Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economy. Rich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on the climate crisis ...World - The Guardian - 3 hours ago -
Landmark $300bn for poorer nations in COP29 climate deal
A deal is salvaged at the UN summit as poorer nations are promised record funding for climate action.Top stories - BBC News - 2 hours ago -
Cop29 live updates: Carbon credit trade rules approved, breaking lengthy deadlock
Draft decision on article 6 approved with no objections. UN climate chief Simon Stiell gave a moving speech at the Cop29 opening plenary on Monday, writes Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate ...World - The Guardian - November 11 -
Boeing raises pay offer in bid to end seven-week strike
The union representing more than 30,000 striking workers endorsed the offer and will hold a ballot on Monday.Top stories - BBC News - November 1 -
Countries Weigh How to Raise Trillions for Climate Crisis at COP29
Low-income countries need at least $1 trillion a year to manage climate change. Donald Trump’s victory just made that more difficult, but options exist.World - The New York Times - November 12 -
Cop29 live: solidarity levy on cryptocurrency could raise billions for climate action, says report
Charging $0.045 per kWh for energy used in intensive bitcoin mining could produce $5bn for the climate crisis, says Global Solidarity Levies taskforce. Josh Gabbatiss, from Carbon Brief has ...World - The Guardian - November 14 -
Nations at COP29 climate talks agree on $300 billion a year for poor countries
The $300 billion will go to developing countries who need the cash to wean themselves off coal, oil and gas.Top stories - CBS News - 1 hour ago -
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Countries must set aside differences and agree climate finance deal, says Cop29 negotiator
Jochen Flasbarth called on Cop29 delegates to press on as world faces increasing crises and drop in solidarity. Governments meeting to forge a global settlement on climate finance must get over ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Cop29 live: UN chair ‘so sick’ of Saudi Arabia’s defence of fossil fuels
Former climate minister for Canada reacts after Saudi delegation said it ‘will not accept any text that targets any specific sectors, including fossil fuels’. My colleague Patrick Greenfield is ...World - The Guardian - 2 days ago -
The Guardian view on UN climate talks: rich and poor nations can strike a win-win deal | Editorial
At Cop29 the global south needs to unite for sustainable growth, leveraging resources and negotiating transformative climate finance pacts. More than a century of burning coal, oil and gas has ...World - The Guardian - November 15 -
Poorer nations need $1tn a year by 2030 in climate finance, top economists find
Study says funding to cope with climate breakdown needed five years earlier than expected. Poor countries need $1tn a year in climate finance by 2030, five years earlier than rich countries are ...World - The Guardian - November 14 -
Will rich countries pay for climate change?
At COP29 the world’s nations will try and negotiate a new spending commitment on climate change.Top stories - BBC News - November 10 -
Bulgarians vote with little hope of breaking a political deadlock
Bulgarians are voting in the seventh general elections in just over three years, with little hope that a stable government will be formed to stop the country’s growing political instabilityWorld - ABC News - October 27 -
Trump and Harris make final push to break US election deadlock
Presidential candidates descend on Pennsylvania as polls in most crucial swing state show a dead heatBusiness - Financial Times - November 5 -
Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds
The electorate has rarely seemed so evenly divided. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll found Harris and Trump tied 48 to 48.Top stories - The New York Times - October 25 -
UK's ultra-rich feel the pinch from Labour's tax-raising budget
Britain's wealthy are feeling the pinch following a slew of targeted tax hikes in the Labour government's budget, with many saying they are making good on plans to leave.Business - CNBC - November 5 -
Digital tech can offer rich opportunities for child development, study says
Activities of those aged 0 to three often involve sensory exploration and embodied cognition, researchers find. Although it has been argued that under-threes should not have any screen time at ...World - The Guardian - November 5 -
Trump and Germany loom over uncertain COP29 finance talks
Also in this newsletter: Much ado about party politics at European commissioner hearingsWorld - Financial Times - November 12 -
Oil-producing nations under fire at COP29 over fossil fuels omission
EU says draft agreements released at climate summit are ‘clearly unacceptable’World - Financial Times - 2 days ago -
Trump Wants to Kill Biden’s Climate Law. It’s Making His Supporters Rich
Trump allies hold hundreds of millions in stakes in companies that benefitted from the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s signature climate law.Business - Inc. - October 27 -
Ultra-rich using jets like taxis, climate scientists warn
Researchers worked out the amount of planet-warming gas released by private jets over four years.Top stories - BBC News - November 7
