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• Barbados PM asks Donald Trump for face-to-face meeting on climate

  13-11-2024 19:00
  
  Exclusive: Mia Mottley, who has championed climate action, says she would seek common ground with US president-electMia Mottley, the climate-championing prime minister of Barbados, has invited Donald Trump to a face-to-face meeting where she would seek “common ground” and persuade him that climate action was in his own interests.“Let us find a common purpose in saving the planet and saving livelihoods,” she told the Guardian at the UN’s Cop29 climate summit in Azerb
  
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• Cop 29: Argentina’s negotiators ordered to withdraw from climate summit; French minister cancels trip – as it happened

  13-11-2024 18:52
  
  France’s ecology minister cancels after Azerbaijan’s president attacks French actions in overseas territoriesMian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has joined a chorus of leaders using their speeches to call for more money to reach their climate goals - and specifying that they need grants rather than loans that saddle them with more debt.
  “Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience,” he said. “I wouldn’t want other countries t
  
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• Argentina withdraws negotiators from Cop29 summit

  13-11-2024 18:04
  
  Move adds to concerns about the stability of the Paris agreement after the election in the US of Donald TrumpArgentinian negotiators representing the government of the climate science denier Javier Milei have been ordered to withdraw from the Cop29 summit after only three days, adding to concerns about the stability of the Paris agreement.More than 80 representatives from the South American country are in Baku, Azerbaijan, for two weeks of negotiations about climate finance for the energy transi
  
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• Cop 29 live: Argentina’s negotiators ordered to withdraw from climate summit; French minister cancels trip

  13-11-2024 18:03
  France’s ecology minister cancels after Azerbaijan’s president attacks French actions in overseas territoriesMian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has joined a chorus of leaders using their speeches to call for more money to reach their climate goals - and specifying that they need grants rather than loans that saddle them with more debt.
  “Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience,” he said. “I wouldn’t want other countries t
  
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• Cop 29 live: Argentina’s negotiators ordered to withdraw from climate summit

  13-11-2024 16:42
  Ana Lamas, undersecretary for the environment, says ‘we have instructions to no longer participate’Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has joined a chorus of leaders using their speeches to call for more money to reach their climate goals - and specifying that they need grants rather than loans that saddle them with more debt.
  “Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience,” he said. “I wouldn’t want other countries to face the
  
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• Trump victory raises risk of investing in offshore wind projects, says RWE

  13-11-2024 15:44
  
  German energy firm shaves €3bn from spending plans for next financial year to €7bnA German energy firm has said that Donald Trump’s election victory has increased the risks of investing in offshore wind projects – but his return to the White House could help bolster Britain’s renewables sector, according to UK developer SSE.Germany’s RWE has cut its spending plans and warned that, as a result of the US election, “the risks for offshore wind projects have i
  
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• Schools closed and people evacuated as torrential rain returns in Spain

  13-11-2024 15:39
  
  Large parts of east and south under alerts as schools are shut and riverside neighbourhoods evacuated in AndalucíaAuthorities in eastern and southern Spain have closed schools and begun evacuating some residents as the country is pounded by further torrential rains two weeks after the catastrophic floods that killed at least 215 people and unleashed a bitter political blame game.By Wednesday morning, the state meteorological agency, Aemet, had put large parts of eastern and southern Spain
  
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• Schools closed and people evacuated as Spain faces further flood warnings

  13-11-2024 15:39
  Schools closed in Málaga and Granada regions, with 3,000 people evacuated from areas near Guadalhorce river in MálagaAuthorities in eastern and southern Spain have closed schools and begun evacuating some residents as the country is pounded by further torrential rains two weeks after the catastrophic floods that killed at least 215 people and unleashed a bitter political blame game.By Wednesday morning, the state meteorological agency, Aemet, had put large parts of eastern and sout
  
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• Soaring grocery prices helped Trump to victory. The climate crisis is only going to make this worse | James Meadway

  13-11-2024 13:00
  
  From olive oil to butter, extreme weather is pushing up the cost of living and having a dramatic political impact. Economists need a solutionIn the US, where Donald Trump swept the board last week, it was the experience of sharply increasing essentials prices, from food to energy, that glued together the Republicans’ new electoral coalition. About 75% of those voting Republican reported that they had faced “hardship” or “severe hardship” as a result of price rises;
  
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• ‘It was my first pregnancy so I didn’t know what was normal’ – This is climate breakdown

  13-11-2024 13:00
  I’d been taking care of myself and the baby. Then the heat came. This is Mariama’s storyLocation Burkina FasoDisaster Heatwave, 2024Mariama, not her real name, is a Burkinabé musician who lives in Ouagadougou. During the heatwaves earlier this year she went into early labour, and lost her baby. Continue reading...
  
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• Cop 29 live: Trump vow to ditch Paris agreement ‘of grave concern’ to small island states

  13-11-2024 12:32
  ‘Our survival is very much at risk,’ Alliance of Small Island States tells the GuardianMian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has joined a chorus of leaders using their speeches to call for more money to reach their climate goals - and specifying that they need grants rather than loans that saddle them with more debt.
  “Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience,” he said. “I wouldn’t want other countries to face the fight Pakis
  
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• Cop 29 live: Albanian PM questions point of summit ‘if biggest polluters continue as usual’

  13-11-2024 11:04
  Edi Rama goes off-script, saying speeches ‘change nothing’ and calling for ‘common political will’Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has joined a chorus of leaders using their speeches to call for more money to reach their climate goals - and specifying that they need grants rather than loans that saddle them with more debt.
  “Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience,” he said. “I wouldn’t want other countries
  
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• Cop 29: Albanian PM questions point of summit ‘if biggest polluters continue as usual’ – live updates

  13-11-2024 09:10
  
  Edi Rama goes off-script, saying speeches ‘change nothing’ and calling for ‘common political will’Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has joined a chorus of leaders using their speeches to call for more money to reach their climate goals - and specifying that they need grants rather than loans that saddle them with more debt.
  “Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience,” he said. “I wouldn’t want other countries
  
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• Birdwatch: a close encounter with a flying rhino in Borneo

  13-11-2024 07:00
  
  Even among other sightings including orangutans, the rhinoceros hornbill was the highlight of the trip I’d never seen a flying rhino before. Then again, I’d never visited the lowland rainforest of Borneo. This is the main stronghold of the rhinoceros hornbill, one of the largest and most imposing of its bizarre family.So when a huge black-and-white bird flew out of the forest canopy, I was suitably impressed. I was most struck by its huge and prominent bill, topped with the orange-ti
  
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• Runaway 'spy whale' fled Russian military training says marine scientist

  13-11-2024 06:17 via bbc.com
  
  Marine scientist uncovers the story behind Andruha's escape from Russian military training programme.
  
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• Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

  13-11-2024 06:00
  
  Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in ColombiaRecord numbers of business representatives and lobbyists had access to the UN’s latest biodiversity talks, analysis shows.In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing envi
  
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• Donald Trump is a blow to Australia on climate and trade. Here’s how we minimise the damage | Ross Garnaut

  13-11-2024 00:56
  During the US time out, Australia and its allies must remain steady and seek to deepen cooperation among themselvesThe idea of open international exchange that framed the Australian reforms of the late 20th century and its subsequent economic success are being challenged in the 21st century. The challenge is intensified by the restoration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. He is committed to higher protection, tax cuts that will set record highs for budget deficits, a trade war w
  
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