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India Insists On New Global Climate Finance Target By 2024 At COP27
Developing countries require "substantive enhancement" in climate finance from the floor of USD 100 billion per year to meet their ambitious goals and rich countries need to lead the mobilisation of resources, India has stressed at the…
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Massachusetts elects United States’ first openly lesbian governor
Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey has been elected governor of Massachusetts, making history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay candidate elected to the office.
Healey defeated Republican Geoff Diehl, a former state…
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Nations Band Together To Keep Forest Promise In Climate Summit
More than 25 countries at the COP27 climate talks on Monday launched a group they said would ensure they hold each other accountable for a pledge to end deforestation by 2030, and announced billions of dollars to finance their efforts.
The…
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“Why Are We Here”: Climate Activists Sidelined At COP27 Summit
Ugandan youth activist Nyombi Morris arrived in Egypt for the UN's COP27 climate summit with high hopes of being part of the campaign for environmental justice.
But it didn't take long for Egypt's stiff security measures to shatter his…
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COP27 Summit To Open With Plea To Discuss Climate Compensation
The U.N. climate summit, COP27, opens in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on Sunday amid growing calls for rich countries to compensate poorer nations most vulnerable to climate change.
Much of the tension surrounding COP27 is expected to relate to…
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Climate activists glue themselves to famous painting by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya in…
The latest in a series of protests against artworks in Europe, climate activists glued their hands to the frames of two famous works by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya in Madrid`s Prado Museum on Saturday.
As reported by New York Post,…
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Rishi Sunak takes U-turn, says will attend COP27 climate summit in Egypt
Taking a U-turn on his previous decision of not attending the COP27 climate summit, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday said.
That he will attend the climate summit “to build a secure and sustainable future.” He took to Twitter on…
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UN chief appeals for Arab unity as antidote to foreign interference and terrorism
The unity of the Arab world is “the raison d’etre of the Arab League” and the organization has “never been more essential” than in this time of ever-widening geopolitical divides, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.…
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Biden to Attend COP27 Climate Summit, Says White House
US President Joe Biden will attend next month’s COP27 United Nations climate summit in Egypt, the White House said Friday, vowing he would “highlight the need for the world to act."
The COP27 conference will once more seek to boost global…
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PM Modi, UK PM Rishi Sunak to meet on sidelines of G-20 summit in Bali
In the first call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new British counterpart Rishi Sunak, the leaders agreed to meet on the sidelines of the G-20 leadership summit to be held mid-November in Indonesia's Bali.
According to a…
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