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Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

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People pass by a poster calling for a reduction in plastic production while the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution is being held in Busan, at a bus station in Seoul, South Korea. | Photo Credit: AP With just two days before negotiators are due to agree on the world’s first […]

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Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds so it has enough troops to battle Russia

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President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File | Photo Credit: AP President Joe Biden’s administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilisation laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18. Also Read: Biden allows Ukraine to strike […]

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Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

COP29 climate finance draft proposes $250-billion target from wealthy countries

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Environmental activists protest during the COP29 United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The COP29 presidency on Friday (November 22, 2024) released a new draft climate finance deal that would have developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035. The draft […]

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Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

COP29 in crisis: All countries reject climate finance draft

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A draft text released on a new climate finance package for the developing world was rejected by every single country signatory. File | Photo Credit: AP A draft text released early Thursday (November 21, 2024) on a new climate finance package for the developing world was rejected by every single country signatory to the U.N. […]

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Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

At U.N. climate talks, a draft of the deal gives little clarity on climate cash for developing nations

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Panama Climate Envoy Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, left, and Wopke Hoekstra, EU climate commissioner, attend a session on climate targets during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) | Photo Credit: Sergei Grits A new draft text released early on Thursday (November 21, 2024) which will form […]

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Days before deadline, plastic treaty draft highlights disagreement

Three days in COP29 summit, countries still waiting for ‘workable’ climate finance draft

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Attendees arrive for the day at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. | Photo Credit: AP An overly lengthy 34-page draft on a new climate finance goal emerged on the third day of the UN climate talks in Azerbaijan’s Baku on Wednesday (November 13, 2024), but the text is […]

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