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November 22, 2024 5:44 PM
The COP29 presidency on Friday released a new draft climate finance deal that would have developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035. The draft also set a broader goal to raise $1.3 trillion annually by 2035, which would include funding from all public and private sou...
November 22, 2024 3:09 PM
COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan urged participating countries to bridge their differences and come up with a finance deal on Friday, as negotiations at the two-week conference entered their final hours. World governments represented at the meeting in the Caspian Sea city of Baku are tasked wit...
November 22, 2024 12:50 AM
Division and discontent spilled into the open on Thursday at a U.N. climate summit in Baku, sparked by a proposal for a new global finance deal which offered two vastly different options and left no one happy as the closing deadline neared. The key goal of COP29 is to agree how much money richer de...
November 21, 2024 9:51 AM
In a historic move, the UN Climate Change COP29 has included tourism in its action agenda, with over 50 governments endorsing the COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism. This groundbreaking initiative, spearheaded by the COP29 Presidency under Azerbaijan, aims to transform the globa...
November 19, 2024 11:50 PM
The COP29 Presidency on Tuesday launched the Reducing Methane from Organic Waste Declaration, with over 30 states amongst the initial signatories, who combined represent 47 per cent of global methane emissions from organic waste, declaring their commitment to set sectoral targets to reducing methane...
November 19, 2024 10:05 PM
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday acknowledged in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country had "learned a lot" from the Indian experience to organise the two-day G20 Rio Summit. Lula received Prime Minister Modi in a bilateral meeting at the Muse...
November 19, 2024 9:53 PM
India on Tuesday asked developed countries to show leadership in climate mitigation actions, as required under the 2015 Paris Agreement, by not just advancing their net-zero targets but by providing enough carbon space for developing countries like “ours” to develop. Speaking on behalf of the G...
November 19, 2024 11:37 AM
India made a significant intervention on Monday during the '2024 Annual High-level Ministerial Roundtable on pre-2030 Ambition' at the COP29 UN Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, emphasising four critical aspects of global climate action. India underscored the importance of addressing four ...
November 19, 2024 9:16 AM
A powerful 'bomb cyclone' fueled by a Category 5 atmospheric river, is forecast to strike the West Coast of the US this week. The storm threatens to bring hurricane-force winds, catastrophic flooding, and massive snowfall in the mountains, Weather Nation TV reported. The intense mid-latitude st...
November 18, 2024 11:01 AM
Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20 major economies reached a fragile consensus on climate finance that had eluded U.N. talks in Azerbaijan. Heads of state arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the G...
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