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Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

The Guardian - UK

Caribbean leaders need to stop taking it on the chin and unite to defy condescending west

The president of Guyana’s scolding of a BBC reporter struck a chord with many who feel silenced by western dominance and the legacy of economic violence

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The Guardian view on the Caribbean: the island-shaped arguments about historical injustice

Editorial: Over the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at a complex region that is raising its voice

The Guardian - UK

Root and branch reform: if carbon markets aren’t working, how do we save our forests?

The world has looked to offsetting schemes to protect forests, fund conservation and fight the climate crisis – but many fail to fulfil their promises. Here are five ways to keep our forests standing

The Guardian - UK

Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn in reparations

Mia Mottley denounces ‘conspiracy of silence’ that has diminished horrors faced during colonial slavery

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Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn as she makes fresh call for reparations

Mia Mottley tells London audience that King Charles’s comments about slavery’s impact were welcome

The Guardian - UK

UK likely to miss Paris climate targets by wide margin, analysis shows

Exclusive: Under current policies, Britain could fall short of internationally agreed goal of 68% cut in emissions by 2030

The Guardian - UK

Activists at COP28 summit ramp up pressure on cutting fossil fuels as talks turn to clean energy

Activists had a series of events and actions lined up Tuesday at the United Nations climate summit seeking to amp up pressure on conference participants to agree to phase out coal, oil and gas, responsible for most of the world’s emissions, and move to clean energy in a fair way

The Independent UK

Climate finance takes spotlight at COP28

Money pledges were in the spotlight at COP28 in Dubai on Monday as delegates turned their focus to the yawning gap in how much climate finance is needed and what's on tap, particularly for developing countries that need funds each year just to adapt to the warming world.

France 24

Global warming could cost poor countries trillions. They've urged the UN climate summit to help

A prominent developing-world leader on the issue of climate change said Monday that global taxes on the financial services, oil and gas, and shipping industries could drum up hundreds of billions to poorer countries adapt to and cope with global warming

The Independent UK

UK would be a climate leader again under Labour, vows Starmer

Exclusive: Labour leader tells Guardian at Cop28 that Britain is wanted back in ‘leading role’ as he accuses Sunak of retreating

The Guardian - UK

Barbados Independence Day: When did the Caribbean island become independent from Britain?

Barbados gained independence from the UK back in 1966, meaning it's been a sovereign state for 57 years

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The Guardian - UK

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

France 24

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…

The Guardian - US

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 Conversation

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…

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The Independent UK

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

Tribune News Service

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.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

Radio France Internationale

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.

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