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COP29: Climate Disaster Fund For Poor Countries 'Ready'
A long-sought disaster relief fund to help vulnerable countries weather the storm of climate change will start handing out aid next year, officials at COP29 in Baku said Tuesday. "The fund for ...
Poor Countries Must Not Leave COP29 'Empty-handed': Guterres
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said nations at the COP29 summit must reach a deal that does not leave poorer countries "empty-handed" in their fight against climate change.
UN climate talks to focus on money to help poor nations cut carbon pollution
Experts calculate that curbing and coping with global warming is going to cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it ...
Trump and Climate Change Policy
The election of Donald Trump as president has already substantially changed the tenor of the United Nations' 29th annual ...
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The Unmistakable Backdrop of COP29
Calling oil and gas “the gift of the god,” Aliyev, said countries “should not be blamed for having them.”Credit...Maxim ...
Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to UN climate talks in a year of weather extremes
The world’s biggest polluters and strongest economies — China and the United States — aren’t sending their No. 1s. Neither ...
Multi-country study finds significant differences in how poverty is passed from parents to children
Researchers from Stockholm University, Bocconi University, and the Rockwool Foundation have studied poverty's lasting impact ...
Climate talks open in Azerbaijan with calls for a path away from the ‘road to ruin’
In Azerbaijan, where the world’s first oil well was drilled and the smell of fuel was noticeable outdoors, the talks were ...
Trump’s Return Hangs Over U.N. Climate Negotiations
The election of Donald J. Trump is sapping momentum from global climate talks as diplomats brace for his pro-fossil-fuel ...
Climate talks open with calls for a path away from the ‘road to ruin.’ But the real focus is money
The COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how much money will flow from rich nations to poor to try ...
Food companies sell products that are less healthy in poorer countries, says report
The world’s biggest food and beverage companies on average sell products in low-income countries that are less healthy than what they sell in high-income countries, according to a new report.