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Davos 2023: CEOs face challenge over sluggish climate efforts

A return to Davos by corporate titans and their bankers after recent record Alpine temperatures has turned a spotlight on just how quickly they are moving to rein in carbon emissions.

Reuters

UN leader attacks fossil fuel companies in Davos for sowing doubt on climate change

"Some in big oil peddled the big lie," he said.

Axios

UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’

Criticism at Davos for big companies that, ‘like the tobacco industry’, ride roughshod over their own science

The Guardian - UK

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Banks and countries pledge over $9bn to rebuild Pakistan after catastrophic floods

International funders join Pakistan PM and UN secretary general in Geneva to agree recovery plan following ‘monsoon on steroids’

The Guardian - UK

A top Ukraine official hopes for a peace summit with Russia by the end of February

Ukraine's foreign minister told the AP that his government is aiming to have a summit, preferably at the United Nations with Secretary-General António Guterres as a possible mediator.

WEKU

The AP Interview: Ukraine FM aims for February peace summit

Ukraine’s foreign minister says his government is aiming to have a peace summit by the end of February preferably at the United Nations with Secretary-General António Guterres as a possible mediator around the time of the anniversary of Russia’s war

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy visits Bakhmut as Putin admits situation in parts of Ukraine ‘extremely difficult’ – as it happened

Ukraine’s president visits frontline city to hand out awards to soldiers

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Body of arrested Iran protester ‘showed shocking signs of torture’, say family

Security forces have killed more than 500 protesters, according to human rights campaigners

Evening Standard

Climate goal of 1.5C is ‘gasping for breath’, says UN head

António Guterres announces a climate ambition summit to confront ‘existential threat’ facing the planet

The Guardian - UK

COP15: A call to action for investors to help us meet vital biodiversity goals

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, opened the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montréal with a stark message: “Without nature, we are nothing. Nature is our life-support system, and yet humanity seems hell bent on destruction.”

The Conversation

Amid Russian pressure, UN report skirts question on Iran drones

An upcoming report to the UN Security Council does not accuse Iran of supplying Russia with drones for the war in Ukraine.

Axios

Cop15 diary week two: creative cops, penalty shootouts and high ambition

Our reporters give you the inside story on what’s happening at the biodiversity summit in Montreal

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Democrats celebrate as Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff

Republican Herschel Walker concedes as Warnock celebrates bolstering the Democratic party’s Senate majority

The Guardian - UK

As the Ukraine war derails efforts to solve the climate crisis, a new one looms — the fight for peace

In his opening remarks at the COP27 meeting in Egypt, UN secretary general António Guterres put it this way: “Humanity has a choice: co-operate or perish. It’s either a climate solidarity pact or a collective suicide pact.”

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The Guardian - UK

UN agrees global tax rules resolution giving developing nations greater say

UN gains mandate for talks next year that could bring reforms to existing tax policy and new convention

The Guardian - US

US receives stinging criticism at Cop27 despite China’s growing emissions

The country is highlighting China’s status as top polluter after being called out for climate inaction

The Guardian - UK

A deal on loss and damage, but a blow to 1.5C – what will be Cop27’s legacy?

Anger at western hypocrisy heated to boiling point in Sharm el-Sheikh, but after intense talks the impasse was finally broken

Radio France Internationale

Cop27 reaches landmark deal on climate damage fund, but little else

Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the Cop27 climate summit early on Sunday that will set up a fund to help poor countries battered by climate disasters, but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them. France said it regretted the agreement's "lack of ambition".

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The Guardian - UK

UN chief warns of ‘breakdown in trust’ with no deal in sight at Cop27

With only one full day of official talks left, there are no clear agreements on key issues including funding for loss and damage

WEKU

There are now 8 billion people on Earth, according to a new U.N. report

The world's population continues to grow, but at a slower rate as people have fewer children. The U.N. predicts it will not reach 9 billion for another 15 years.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar must get 'democratic transition back on track immediately': UN

United Nations (UN) secretary-general António Guterres on Saturday urged the Myanmar junta to "immediately" restart democracy, saying it was the only way to stop the "unending nightmare" engulfing the country.

The Guardian - UK

‘Like Vegas, but worse’: Sharm el-Sheikh fails to charm Cop27 delegates

On first week of summit there have been traffic jams, water shortages – and an atmosphere of state repression

The Conversation

'Toxic cover-up': 6 lessons Australia can draw from the UN's scathing report on greenwashing

The United Nations this week slammed corporate “greenwashing” and said organisations cannot claim to be net-zero while supporting fossil fuel projects.

The Conversation

Our buildings are driving us closer to 'climate hell' – how do we get back on course to net zero?

More and more of the world’s people are feeling the impacts of climate change. As United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said when COP27 opened this week: “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.”

The Guardian - UK

Oil and gas firms planning ‘frightening’ fossil fuels growth, report finds

Analysis released at Cop27 climate summit shows plans would thwart chances of keeping global heating to 1.5C

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