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UK takes key role at UN climate talks as pressure mounts to reach finance deal

The Cop29 presidency of Azerbaijan asked both the UK and Brazil to ensure the delivery of ‘a balanced set of negotiated outcomes’ at the Baku summit.

The Independent UK

‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

Top climate figures respond to Guardian survey of scientists who expect temperatures to soar, saying leaders must act radically

The Guardian - UK

‘Not conducive to our survival’: Pacific islands on the climate frontline respond to Cop28 deal

The agreement was hailed as a win for climate action, but Pacific campaigners say it fails to grapple with the reality of a warming world

The Guardian - AU

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How COP28 failed the world's small islands

As the gavel came down on the latest round of climate talks in Dubai, there were declarations of “we united, we acted, we delivered” from the COP28 presidency. This was met by a sense of déjà vu among delegates of the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), an intergovernmental organisation…

The Conversation

1.5°C: where the target came from – and why we're losing sight of its importance

The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2°C would “push global conditions past any point that any human civilisation had experienced”. By 1990, scientists had also weighed in: 2°C above the…

The Conversation

Island nations want China, India to pay for climate damage

Highly polluting emerging economies including China and India should pay into a climate compensation fund to help countries rebuild after climate change-driven disasters, the prime minister of island nation Antigua and Barbuda said on Tuesday.

Reuters

COP27: Financing for climate damages gets a foot in the door

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - UN climate negotiations on Sunday offered a sliver of hope and "solidarity" for developing countries battered by increasingly costly impacts of global warming, in agreeing to discuss the thorny issue of money for "loss and damage".

AFP

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