What 2023 could mean for Ukraine, China, conflict zones, and climate change – Grid
One year ago, even some sophisticated readers — and savvy editors — couldn’t have identified Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a photo or found Luhansk and Donetsk on a map. It’s doubtful they’d have known what “HIMARS” or “ATACMS” were,…
Bill Gates warns climate change will create ‘dramatically worse’ world for our grandchildren – Fox News
Billionaire Bill Gates warned in a blog post on Tuesday that climate change will create a “dramatically worse” world for “our grandchildren.” Gates argued that the solution to climate change can be summed up in two sentences. “We need to…
What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change? – CounterPunch
Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” relations between their two countries were on a hair-raising…
Where U.S.-China Competition Leaves Climate Change – The Atlantic
The latest round of international negotiations on climate change, which concluded on Sunday, achieved a significant breakthrough by creating a fund to compensate poor countries for damage caused by global warming. But the two weeks of intense haggling at COP27,…
Biden agrees to pay climate reparations: US will compensate developing countries for global warming – Daily Mail
Joe Biden says the US will sign-up to a UN-backed fund to pay reparations to developing countries worst-affected by climate change. The creation of the fund was announced Saturday. It was negotiated at the United Nations‘ COP27 Summit in Egypt,…
Western Premiers Push Back Against Trudeau’s Devastating Green Agenda
It is not only Alberta Premier Danielle Smith who is taking a strikingly aggressive attitude towards the Trudeau government’s persistent hostility to the oil and gas industry — Scott Moe of Saskatchewan has also stepped into the ring. Both are…
Your Thursday Briefing: Crisis Averted?
Poland calls blast a likely accident On Tuesday, an explosion in Poland near the border with Ukraine killed two people. Initial reports suggested that a Russian missile caused the explosion. But a fuller picture has since emerged. Andrzej Duda, Poland’s…
G20 in Bali provides impetus for negotiations at COP27: $20 billion to phase out Indonesian coal, Europe-Australia bilateral affirms Paris goals
G20 Leaders Plant Mangroves In Bali Photo via PM Albanese via twitter So what did the G20 meeting say on climate and how will it affect the UN Climate Change conference COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt? “Mindful of our leadership…
U.S. and China Restart Climate Talks
BALI, Indonesia — President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China agreed on Monday to restart talks between their countries as part of international climate negotiations, a breakthrough in the effort to avert catastrophic global warming. Talks between China and…
U.S. and China Restart Climate Talks – The New York Times
BALI, Indonesia — President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China agreed on Monday to restart talks between their countries as part of international climate negotiations, a breakthrough in the effort to avert catastrophic global warming. Talks between China and…
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