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Who’s who at Cop28: the leaders with the world’s future in their hands

From fossil fuel chiefs to an outspoken UN secretary general, a look at who will attend the UAE’s climate summit

The Guardian - UK

The oil boss, the islander, the ecofeminist: Five people to watch at COP28

World leaders, scientists and activists gather in Dubai this week for the latest UN-sponsored COP summit aimed at forging a global response to the climate emergency. From the controversial Emirati host Sultan al-Jaber to climate leader and Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, FRANCE 24 takes a look at some…

France 24

Israeli ambassador protests as Iranian president speaks - as it happened

Ukrainian president addresses UN summit; Biden warns against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequences

The Guardian - US

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Tory MP's historic family links to slavery raise questions about Britain's position on reparations

“Reparations have been paid for other wrongs and obviously far more quickly, far more speedily than reparations for what I consider the greatest atrocity and crime in the history of mankind: transatlantic chattel slavery.” So noted the eminent Jamaican international jurist Judge Patrick Robinson, when launching the 115-page Brattle Report…

The Conversation

UAE's al-Jaber urges more financing to help Caribbean and other regions fight climate change

The head of this year’s U.N. global climate summit is urging more availability of funds to help the Caribbean and other regions fight climate change

The Independent UK

Spending bill targets Kerry’s office, global climate spending

WASHINGTON -- House Republican appropriators want to eliminate funding for John Kerry’s position as President Joe Biden’s special envoy and for other international climate efforts.

Tribune News Service

Spending bill targets Kerry's office, global climate spending - Roll Call

House Republican appropriators want to eliminate John Kerry's job, one of the cuts they would make to climate spending.

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Amid the battle of Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, a new global order struggles to take shape

While the US and China vie for supremacy, smaller countries, championed by Barbados PM Mia Mottley, are speaking out on key challenges of climate, poverty and migration

The Guardian - UK

Paris finance reforms could untie poor countries’ hands in climate crisis

Changes to the World Bank could unlock developing states access to loans and to the means of staving off disaster

The Guardian - UK

Rich nations pledge to unlock hundreds of billions for climate fight

Multilateral development banks like the World Bank are expected to find $200 billion in extra firepower for low-income economies by taking on more risk, a move that may require wealthy nations to inject more cash, world leaders said on Friday.

Radio France Internationale

'We only have this planet': Barbados PM urges unified climate finance response

Between brainstorming ways to fix the global financial system and appearing onstage at a Paris pop concert, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley stopped to record a message about the storm looming near her Caribbean nation.

Radio France Internationale

Climate finance summit under pressure to overhaul 'punitive' global system

A global summit seeking to overhaul the international financial system wraps up Friday after taking small steps towards easing the debt burden of developing nations weighed down by climate and economic crises.

Radio France Internationale

The Guardian view on Macron’s green finance deal: save lives, not profits

Editorial: The Paris conference shows the climate crisis is no time for the tranquillising drug of gradualism

The Guardian - UK

World Bank offers developing countries debt pauses if hit by climate crisis

Move at Paris summit on global finance will only apply to repayments on new loans

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Paris climate summit seeks to provoke 'public financial shock'

During a summit aimed at reimagining the global financial system, French President Emmanuel Macron emphasised on Thursday that no nation should be forced to make a decision between addressing poverty and addressing climate change.

The Independent UK

Shifting S. Africa coal plant for clean energy needs millions in loans; experts say that's a problem

Plumes of heat-trapping pollutants last billowed from the giant stacks of South Africa's Komati Power Station in October

The Independent UK

World leaders, activists in Paris seek financial response to climate emergency, poverty

World leaders, heads of international organizations and activists are gathering in Paris for a two-day summit to seek better ways to tackle poverty and climate change issues by reshaping the global financial system

The Guardian - UK

Macron and world leaders call on private finance to help reduce global poverty

In lead up to Paris meeting on Thursday, open letter states that government loans and grants not enough to spur development

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The Guardian - UK

A wealth tax could help poorer countries tackle climate crisis, economists say

Taxing world’s wealthiest people could help poorer countries shift economies to low-carbon and recover from climate damage

The Guardian - UK

‘Countries are drowning’: climate expert calls for urgent rethink on scale of aid for developing world

World needs to offer trillions, not billions in overseas support, says leading climate economist Avinash Persaud

The Guardian - UK

Paris talks to focus on funding poor countries to tackle climate crisis

World leaders will meet next week to discuss climate finance, green growth, debt and private investment

The Independent UK

Global Citizen's next campaign: Reform climate financing

The nonprofit Global Citizen announced Thursday a new campaign to support the reform of global banks and climate financing

Reuters

France, Barbados, Zambia back new climate finance advocacy campaign

The leaders of France, Spain, Barbados and Sierra Leone were among those to back a new coalition on Thursday aiming to accelerate the flow of climate-related finance to the world's poorest countries.

The Independent UK

Earth's warriors, young and old, keep battling and hoping

Young and old, famous and not so well known, there are many people from around the globe who make it their mission to try to save the planet, especially from the ravages of climate change

The Independent UK

Slow start on World Bank reform angers climate-hit countries

World Bank meetings in Washington were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change

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