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$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2025

Here's what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn't do

The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2025

Can U.N. summits save the planet? A faltering year of talks brings up questions about the process

In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing number of deserts have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes that didn’t address the scale of the problems

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2024