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The opening ceremony. Issue #2128

COP 29’s – $300 billion insult!

The 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) was held from 11 to 22 November 2024. Its aim was to meet the Paris Agreement...

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Issue #2125

The Carbon Inequality Kills

Every year Oxfam produces its report on global inequality. It always makes for grim reading, as capitalism demands higher profits while billions eke out an...

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Issue #2149

UN Climate Week in Panamá: we need three planets

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held its first Climate Week in Panamá City, Panamá, 19-23 May. The solutions to the climate crisis...

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Issue #2128

GREEN NOTES

As the year draws to a close, corporations and their compliant governments are taking humanity closer to self-destruction. Developing countries went to the COP29 UN...

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Issue #2150

GREEN NOTES

The COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference is to be held in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula...

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Issue #2172

GREEN NOTES

Brazil, the host nation of COP30, is facing criticism for approving new oil drilling off the Amazon River’s mouth just before the start of the...

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Issue #2126

GREEN NOTES

COP 29 carbon-market con The first day of the 29th climate negotiations (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan opened with a much applauded ‘decision’ on international...

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Wind farm. Issue #2171

Australia’s COP30 turning point

As the COP30 UN climate conference began in Belém, Brazil, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged the Australian government to drive forward the action needed to...

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Issue #2127

DINGO

A new draft of a deal on cash to adapt to climate change released at the United Nations climate summit (COP29) “has angered” developing nations....

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COP30 group photo. Issue #2173

COP30. ‘End the era of fossil fuels’

“COP30 will go down in history as the deadliest talk show ever produced,” Harjeet Singh of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation said at the conclusion...

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Temperature gauge on hot beach Issue #2171

Net zero hijacked by fossil fuel polluters

Net zero emissions by 2050 is a target adopted internationally under the UN International Framework on Climate Change at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015...

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Issue #2172

COP30: Ground zero of climate crisis

“Climate change is no longer a threat of the future; it is a tragedy of the present,” said President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da...

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