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Editorial: At Cop29 the global south needs to unite for sustainable growth, leveraging resources and negotiating transformative climate finance pacts

This is the one time of year where the eyes of the world are all on climate change. When it makes the news every single night, and everyone hopes that, miraculously, almost 200 countries will somehow put aside insurmountable differences to come together and solve this crisis in a tidy…

Letter from senior figures says the COP process has achieved much, but now needs an overhaul

Australia broke away from the U.S. after the country voted to recognize the "permanent sovereignty" of Palestinians for the first time in a UN resolution.

THE UN’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories has accused David Lammy of being a "genocide denier" ...

The message came in response to a September letter from the US warning against making any threats against Trump’s life

US vice president Al Gore told AFP Friday it was "absurd" for petrostates such as Azerbaijan to host UN climate talks, saying the selection process should be overhauled.

An Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a legal ruling – or fatwa – denouncing the October 7 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas. Salman al-Dayah’s fatwa condemned Hamas’s actions for violating Islamic principles governing jihad, because they resulted in harm to Israeli and Gazan civilians.

The Court of Appeal found that it could not order Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030.