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• Several people killed amid ‘unprecedented’ flooding as Storm Bert batters Britain

  24-11-2024 20:20 via theguardian.com
  Rhondda Cynon Taf declares emergency as at least four deaths reported across England and WalesSeveral people have been killed as Storm Bert battered the UK, with a major incident declared in south Wales.At least four deaths have been reported in England and Wales since the storm hit, with thousands of homes left without power. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial

  24-11-2024 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justiceThe hasty imposition of a deal at the UN climate conference, Cop29, in Azerbaijan, over the objections of poorer nations has fractured global trust and undermined recent progress. This was supposed to be the “finance Cop” when two dozen industrialised countries – including the US, Europe and Canada – promised to pay developing
  
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• Huge COP29 climate deal too little too late, poorer nations say

  24-11-2024 16:56 via bbc.com
  
  Richer countries have promised £238bn a year, but campaigners say it is far from enough.
  
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• ‘Unprecedented’ flooding in parts of Wales as Storm Bert batters Britain

  24-11-2024 16:21 via theguardian.com
  Rhondda Cynon Taf council declares emergency as rising waters affect south Wales towns and rest centres are set upHeavy rain and thawing snow are combining to bring flooding across the UK as Storm Bert continues to batter the country, with a major incident declared in south Wales.Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough council declared an emergency as flood waters rose in towns across the region. Rising waters are affecting towns including Pontypridd, Ebbw Vale and Aberdare. Continue reading...
  
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• Cop29 climate finance deal criticised as ‘travesty of justice’ and ‘stage-managed’

  24-11-2024 16:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Some countries say deal should not have been done and is ‘abysmally poor’ compared with what is neededThe climate finance deal agreed at Cop29 is a “travesty of justice” that should not have been adopted, some countries’ negotiators have said.The climate conference came to a dramatic close early on Sunday morning when negotiators struck an agreement to triple the flow of climate finance to poorer countries. Continue reading...
  
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• Huge deal struck but is it enough? 5 takeaways from a dramatic COP29

  24-11-2024 15:13 via bbc.com
  
  Fraught debate revealed the divide between rich and poor as the UN conference sealed a climate finance deal.
  
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• Deal or no deal: can Labor avoid an ‘end-of-year dumpster fire’ and pass its legislative agenda? | The Agenda

  24-11-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  If Peter Dutton senses an opportunity in blocking bills in the lead-up to an election, he might just take itFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe final parliamentary sitting week of the year is here!That odour you’re smelling is drip filter coffee to fuel late-night Senate votes and the faint whiff of desperation to pass as much of the government’s legislative agenda as possible.Sign up for Guardian Austra
  
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• Developing countries condemn 'insufficient' Cop29 deal – video

  24-11-2024 14:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Rich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on the climate crisis in the early hours of Sunday morning, after marathon talks and days of bitter recriminations ended in what campaigners said was a 'betrayal'. Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’Yes, there is a lot of greenwashing, but Cop summits are our best chance of averting climate breakdown Continue reading...
  
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• The silver lining at a disappointing Cop29? It showed climate progress can survive Trump 2.0 | Geoffrey Lean

  24-11-2024 14:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politicsThe resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the climate crisis, in the early hours of Sunday morning, are gravely disappointing but much better than nothing. And “nothing” was almost the result of this climate conference in Baku. This was one of the most difficult of the 29 Cops I have followed.The deal falls a long way short of hopes at the start
  
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• Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean

  24-11-2024 14:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politicsThe resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the climate crisis, in the early hours of Sunday morning, are gravely disappointing but much better than nothing. And “nothing” was almost the result of this climate conference in Baku.The deal falls a long way short of hopes at the start of the climate summit, and even further behind what the world urge
  
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• Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battles

  24-11-2024 13:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Rich countries still need convincing that giving money to poorer nations is very much in their interests tooIt was only on the last scheduled day of two weeks of negotiations at the UN Cop29 climate summit that developed countries put a financial commitment on the table for the first time.In reality, this offer took not just two weeks of talks to prepare, but nine years – since article 9 of the Paris agreement in 2015 made it clear that the rich industrialised world would be obliged to sup
  
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• Flat-cap Clarkson only wants his nose in the trough | Stewart Lee

  24-11-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The broadcaster thinks if he fires up his farming fanbase they can shield him from his obligation to contribute his fair share to societyI read Andrew Michael Hurley’s new novel, Barrowbeck, in preparation for co-hosting Tales of the Weird, a timely event on the folk horror genre at the British Library earlier this month. I’m not the most informed commentator on this literary subset by any means, but I am, after Mark Gatiss, one of the most famous, and so I am often asked to pontific
  
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• World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

  24-11-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this weekThe world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global plastic pollution.Speaking before the final, critical round of UN talks on the first global trea
  
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• Yes, there is a lot of greenwashing, but Cop summits are our best chance of averting climate breakdown | Ashish Ghadiali

  24-11-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite its imperfections the process of tackling the climate crisis will not be derailed, even in the face of US backtrackingIt was never an indication of great things to come when the chief executive of Cop29, Elnur Soltanov, was filmed attempting to broker gas and oil deals for Azerbaijan in the slipstream of the past fortnight’s UN climate summit in Baku.More than 1,700 fossil fuel lobbyists have been operating in and around Cop29, outnumbering delegates from the 10 most climate-vulner
  
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• The climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair

  24-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The world will continue to be absurd, but you, with all your passion, can still make your corner of it more bearableThe question I am finding it ever more difficult to be in this nasty world. Everything that I cherish is being destroyed and there is nowhere to go to find solace. I’ve always loved nature – but when I go for a walk now, I see every ash tree dying, I hear the loss of birdsong, I see how few insects there are. When I read the news, I just cannot comprehend how cruel huma
  
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• Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided – as it happened

  24-11-2024 01:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with itMarching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the draft deal at the Cop29 venue last night.“Pay up or shut up!” the campaign group Demand Climate Justice said in a post on social media. Continue reading...
  
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• Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’

  24-11-2024 00:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economyRich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on the climate crisis in the early hours of Sunday morning, after marathon talks and days of bitter recriminations ended in what campaigners said was a “betrayal”.The developing world will receive at least $1.3tn (£1tn) a year in funds to help them shift to a low-carbon economy and cope with the impacts of
  
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• Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided

  24-11-2024 00:18 via theguardian.com
  
  The deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with it.Marching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the draft deal at the Cop29 venue last night.“Pay up or shut up!” the campaign group Demand Climate Justice said in a post on social media. Continue reading...
  
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