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Cop29’s new carbon market rules offer hope after scandal and deadlock

Countries agree on how to create, trade and register credits to meet climate commitments

The Guardian - UK

World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week

The Guardian - UK

Developing nations blast $300 billion Cop29 climate deal as insufficient

Countries at the Cop29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient.

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Countries urged to be ambitious in final push for UN plastic pollution treaty

Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea, for talks to agree a global plastic pollution treaty.

The Independent UK

Yes, there is a lot of greenwashing, but Cop summits are our best chance of averting climate breakdown

Despite its imperfections the process of tackling the climate crisis will not be derailed, even in the face of US backtracking

The Guardian - UK

Haiti wonders what's next as gang violence surges and UN peacekeeping mission flops

When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high

The Independent UK

From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks

The petroleum-laden dust has settled on this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, held over the past fortnight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Climate scientists, leaders, lobbyists and delegates are heading for home.

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Afghan Women Turn To Entrepreneurship Under Taliban

When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she took matters into her own hands and poured her savings into starting a business.

International Business Times

At Climate Talks, Painstaking Diplomacy And Then Anger

After three sleepless nights of back and forth among negotiators, all it took to seal a contentious global deal on climate finance was the hammering of a gavel.

International Business Times

Developing Nations Slam 'Paltry' $300 Bn Climate Deal

The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.

International Business Times

Here's what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks

In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change

The Independent UK

Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’

Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economy

The Guardian - UK

Cop29 secures last-minute $300bn climate finance deal as talks saved from collapse

Dramatic day saw prolonged negotiations, walkouts by vulnerable nations and protests echoing through corridors

The Independent UK

Regional Australia has welcomed Iranian Bahá’ís with open arms. Back home, we’d be persecuted

The community-building activities my family and I participate in every week are a core part of our faith. In Iran, it would see us arrested

The Guardian - AU

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UN Aid Convoy Looted In Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis

Aid trucks looted in Gaza, escalating tensions between Israel and UNRWA, civilian casualties in Israeli airstrikes, and warnings of a looming famine in the...

Evening Standard

COP29 deal on the verge of collapse as negotiators walk out

The UN climate summit had been due to finish on Friday but ran into an extra day as negotiators from nearly 200 countries tried to reach an agreement

The Guardian - AU

Courts, politicians and police in the sea: the many battles for climate activists at NSW’s Rising Tide protest

Experts say moves to stop the protest come amid an escalating crackdown on activism across the country

The Guardian - UK

Row over who will pay $1tn climate fund drags Cop29 talks past the deadline

Rich countries resist increasing their contributions to poor countries that are bearing the brunt of global heating

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International Business Times

World Approves UN Rules For Carbon Trading Between Nations At COP29

New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries to buy carbon-cutting "offsets" from developing nations were agreed at UN climate talks Saturday, in a move already raising fears they will be used to greenwash climate targets.

International Business Times

Aid Only 'Delaying Deaths' As Sudan Counts Down To Famine: Agency Chief

War-torn Sudan is on a "countdown to famine" ignored by world leaders while humanitarian aid is only "delaying deaths", Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) chief Jan Egeland told AFP on Saturday.

Salon

Graham warns allies over ICC warrant

The GOP senator wants consequences for countries that help enforce arrest warrants against the Gaza war architects

The Independent UK

Autistic man still locked up for murder under joint enterprise laws 10 years after friend stabbed stranger

Despite Alex Henry running from the scene and being diagnosed with autism, he remains behind bars

Radio France Internationale

EU raises cash offer to poor nations in deadlocked climate talks

The European Union on Saturday raised an offer by rich nations to help poor countries worst hit by climate change to US$300 billion a year in a bid to salvage talks that the developing world warned were on the brink of collapse.

The Independent UK

Cop29 draft deal on verge of collapse as small island nations walk out

Dramatic day sees talks to reach agreement going into overtime and protests echoing through corridors

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text

Exclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'

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