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Climate And Gaza Crises Share Spotlight As World Leaders Attend COP28

World leaders take centre stage at UN climate talks in Dubai on Friday, under pressure to step up efforts to limit global warming as the Israel-Hamas conflict casts a shadow over the summit.

International Business Times

COP28 climate summit just approved a 'loss and damage' fund. What does this mean?

Day one of the COP28 climate summit saw the first big breakthrough: agreement on a “loss and damage” fund to compensate poor states for the effects of climate change.

The Conversation

Women Leaders Are Fighting The Global Hunger Crisis In Ways You Won't Expect

Women entrepreneurs are using their skills to end famine and acute food insecurity in the countries most affected by climate extremes.

International Business Times UK

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As climate crisis reaches pivotal moment, what on earth are world leaders waiting for?

2023 is officially the hottest year on record. World leaders gathering today in Dubai for the UN Climate Change Conference already know what they must do to reverse global warming but, as King Charles is set to warn them, this must be a ‘critical turning point’. Senior climate correspondent Louise…

The Independent UK

U.N. Climate Change Conference Opens During Hottest Year on Record

It seems unlikely that activists' demands to "keep 1.5 alive" will be met.

Reason

PM Modi arrives in Dubai to attend World Climate Action Summit

Modi arrives in Dubai for World Climate Action Summit, calls for support to developing countries with climate financing and tech transfer. Urges focus on climate action based on equity, justice and differentiated responsibilities

The Hindu

World AIDS day: Mental health challenges faced by individuals living with HIV and how to overcome them

Historically, AIDS was first identified in West Africa in the late 19th century. However, a lack of awareness, especially among children under the age of 15, has contributed to its spread. Many people succumbed to AIDS simply because they didn't know how to treat it. Globally, India ranks third in…

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Impossible to quit? COP28 showdown over phase out of fossil fuels

It's off the charts. All evidence points to an acceleration of the planet’s record-breaking heat. So the blame game begins, as the COP 28 summit opens in the oil and gas-rich United Arab Emirates, between those who provide fossil fuels, those who consume them and those in the front lines…

France 24

Women in Sudan ‘gang-raped for hours in ethnically-targeted attacks’

A 19-year-old said she was raped repeatedly for three days before being released

Evening Standard

Making this Israeli-Palestinian war the last

Israeli-Palestinian relations have been locked in a never-ending cycle of death, destruction and misery and the war in Gaza should be the last

The Hindu

How COP became the ultimate global business gathering

All eyes are on Dubai.

Fortune

Hamas Terror Attacks: Balancing Principles And Human Lives In The Middle East

EU urged to freeze aid to Palestine to purge Hamas and save Two State Solution

Zenger

Respect the right of Falkland Islanders to self-determination

Letters: The islands’ status as a British overseas territory has nothing to do with imperial gestures, and everything to do with the wishes of the population, writes Dr Nigel Haywood. Plus letters from Glenn D Barker, Mark Nolan and Maya Richardson

The Guardian - UK

Members of global chemical weapons watchdog vote to keep Syria from getting poison gas materials

The annual meeting of members of the global chemical weapons watchdog has called on countries to prevent the sale or transfer to Syria of raw materials and equipment that could be used to create poison gas and nerve agents

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Israeli assault on southern Gaza could push 1m refugees to Egypt border, UNRWA chief warns

Philippe Lazzarini urges Israel to think of consequences of offensive if truce is not further extended

The Conversation

Why renewed China-US cooperation bodes well for climate action

The relationship between the US and China is the most important in the world, and it has been unstable and sometimes under extreme stress in recent years. But a recent meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in California may bring new momentum for global climate action.

The Conversation

Gaza Update: ceasefire holds for now, but array of armed Hamas allies could threaten this fragile truce

So far, the ceasefire between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas, originally set at four days and since extended twice as more hostages and prisoners are exchanged, remains in place. There have been concerns that isolated incidents of violence, including one in Jerusalem where three Israeli civilians were gunned…

Fortune

Wall Street titans are getting behind Nikki Haley in the presidential race—hedge funder Bill Ackman says it’s time for Biden to ‘step aside’

Many in the finance industry “are looking to consolidate around an alternative to Trump before it’s too late,” said one expert.

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Radio France Internationale

Cop28 opens with historic launch of loss and damage fund

Nearly 200 nations agreed Thursday to launch a fund to support countries hit by global warming, in a "historic" moment at the start of UN climate talks in the oil-rich UAE.

International Business Times

Hundreds Of New Oil And Gas Projects Approved Despite Climate Crisis

More than 400 oil and gas projects were approved globally in the last two years despite calls to abandon all new hydrocarbon development, new figures showed as the UN COP28 climate talks opened Thursday.

Al Jazeera

Loss and damage fund approved at UN’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai

UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber calls to ‘proactively engage’ fossil fuel companies as part of the solution to climate challenges.

The Guardian - AU

Fossil fuel projects awaiting approval could blow Australia’s ‘carbon budget’ tenfold, climate groups say

Exclusive: More than 20bn tonnes of Co2 could be emitted if 30 developments were to go ahead

Radio France Internationale

UN confirms 2023 set to be hottest year ever recorded

As the Cop28 climate conference opens in Dubai, the United Nations weather agency has warned that 2023 has broken several climate records and is set to be the hottest ever recorded.

The Conversation

As plastic production grows, treaty negotiations to reduce plastic waste are stuck in low gear

Plastic pollution has spread to Earth’s farthest reaches, with widespread effects on wildlife, the environment and human health. To curb this problem, U.N. member countries are negotiating a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which they aim to complete by the end of 2024.

WEKU

Global climate talks begin in Dubai, with an oil executive in charge

This year's United Nations climate summit is being held in the petroleum-dependent United Arab Emirates. Delegates began by approving a landmark fund to pay for climate losses.

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