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UN Chief at Climate Summit: Humanity Must Cooperate or Perish

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe. The speech was intended to set an urgent tone as governments sit down…

Asharq Al-Awsat

At COP27, climate change framed as battle for survival

World leaders and diplomats framed the fight against global warming as a battle for human survival during opening speeches at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Monday, with the head of the United Nations declaring a lack of progress so far had the world speeding down a “highway to…

Reuters

Climate justice at COP27: ‘Richer countries cannot turn their backs on this’

The UN's annual climate change conference grows more urgent every year. With just over 1.1°C of warming above pre-industrial levels, the world is already seeing devastating consequences. As COP27 opens in Egypt, we discuss the stakes at this year's summit with Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment…

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UK was 'in danger' of breaking law at Manston migrants centre, says ex-Home Secretary

Grant Shapps said he had received 'very clear' advice that the Government was close to breaking the law over its processing of asylum seekers and the Manston facility risked 'tipping into becoming an unofficial detention centre'

Daily Mirror

FAQ: What's at stake at the COP27 global climate negotiations

World leaders are meeting in Egypt for the next two weeks to talk about reining in climate change and paying for its deadly effects. Here's what you need to know.

WEKU

Window to avoid dangerous climate change closing, expert tells new Tipping Point podcast

Tipping Point a Reach PLC podcast explores the two alternative futures facing the planet. Listen wherever you get your podcasts

Irish Mirror

Loss and damage issue keeps us Cop27 negotiators wrangling late into the night

Developing countries hope to make progress on this problem because we are already suffering the effects

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COP27... A Climate Summit with an Economic Spirit

The economy appears to be at the heart of problems and solutions to the world’s climate crisis as the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference got underway in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday. As the world rushed towards industrialization at the onset of the 20th century, it drove unwanted gases into…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Billionaires should not make up climate finance gaps, says Bezos Earth Fund head

Rich countries ‘not living up to obligations’, says Andrew Steer, in charge of $10bn environmental fund

The Guardian - UK

COP27 Attendees Anticipate Saudi Plan for Saving Earth

Attendees of the UN’s climate change summit (COP27), underway at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh, are patiently awaiting the activities of Saudi-led green initiatives that aim to deliver a green future and scale up regional climate action through cooperation. In its second edition, the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) Summit will convene…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rishi Sunak to use Cop27 to raise migrant crisis with French President

Ahead of the conference, the PM said the issue of small boats crossing the Channel was his ‘key priority’.

The Independent UK

Monday briefing: The dramatic, agonising, crucial talks that will decide Cop27’s success

In today’s newsletter: For the next two weeks, ministers, negotiators from countries large and small will gather in Egypt. Can they get anything done?

The Guardian - UK

World leaders gather to talk climate, but don't expect much

More than 100 world leaders are about to discuss a worsening problem that scientists’ call Earth’s biggest challenge, yet observers don’t expect much from it, maybe not even a lot of attention

The Independent UK

Revealed: US and UK fall billions short of ‘fair share’ of climate funding

Exclusive: Support for developing countries will be critical issue at Cop27 but new data shows rich countries are lagging

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What is Cop27 and why does it matter?

World leaders, climate groups and activists are meeting in Egypt to thrash out plans on how to safeguard the future of the planet

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Money talks: why climate finance at Cop27 is key to beating global heating

Funding urgently needed to cope with climate disasters – and to prevent distrust crashing UN negotiations

Bangkok Post

World population at 8 billion humans, and still growing

NEW YORK: The United Nations estimates that the global human population will reach eight billion by mid-November, and will continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace and with regional disparities, in the decades to come.

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What impact will the election defeat of Jair Bolsonaro have on Brazil?

IT’S been a week since Brazil announced that its former president Luiz a Lula da Silva won the election over his rival Jair Bolsonaro. Da Silva…

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Billionaires responsible for TEN TIMES the carbon emissions of Scotland, Oxfam says

BILLIONAIRES are responsible for one million times more greenhouse gas emissions than the average person, new research from Oxfam has found.

Tribune News Service

Parades, pep rallies and pleading: Georgia candidates make final push for votes

As a group of Democratic volunteers gathered around her, the party’s nominee for attorney general had a plain message to supporters worried about the polls tilting in the GOP direction.

AAP

NSW approved UN jail visit before backflip

NSW reneged on an agreement to allow UN inspectors into its prisons the day the delegation landed in Australia, a federal official has told senators.

Daily Mirror

Fears over MORE North Korea missiles as Kim Jong-un warns of military response

North Korea said it will respond to the exercises with "sustained, resolute and overwhelming practical military measures" and lambasted the US-South Korea drills as "military confrontation hysteria"

The New Daily

‘Like colonisation all over again’: Torres Strait Islanders build seawall at Parliament House

Traditional owners from the Torres Strait built a wall of seabags in Canberra to call for stronger action against climate change.

The Guardian - UK

Super-rich’s carbon investment emissions ‘equivalent to whole of France’

Analysis examining carbon impact of billionaires’ investments published as Cop27 talks get under way

360info

Making global health greener, fairer, and younger

Global health organisations are missing many of the voices affected by their decisions.

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