The U.S., meanwhile, declined to join a coalition including the European Union, Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and Norway that promised during the conference to embrace “ambitious” new climate plans by early next year. U.S. officials did not explain their absence from the effort, even though the Biden administration had helped orchestrate the pledge. Broadly, nations arrived unwilling to … Read more
Another European negotiator said that for his country, $250 billion was “a good ballpark figure.” Senior Biden administration officials have noted they are negotiating a deal that a future Democratic or climate-friendly government could meet. Four years of Trump and at least two years of full Republican control of Congress will likely diminish, if not … Read more
“He judged everything from the perspective of the property entrepreneur he had been before politics,” she wrote of Trump. “Each property could only be allocated once. If he didn’t get it, someone else did. That was also how he looked at the world.” “For him, all countries were in competition with each other, in which … Read more
During the campaign ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election in the U.S., Trump said he would pull his country out of the Paris climate agreement, something he did in 2017 during his first term. Current U.S. President Joe Biden had the U.S. rejoin the pact in one of his first acts upon assuming office … Read more
The Indian delegation heads to COP29 this week with strong red lines, despite growing doubt over the fate of the climate action discussions, with Trump now ruling the US. The first is the primacy of the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, and all parties must adhere to it. COP29 in Baku is largely about ‘finance’ … Read more
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not mince words, while criticizing Opposition leader Peter Dutton over the move to shelve Labor’s 2030 gas reduction target if the Coalition came to power. Dutton said Saturday if the Coalition formed the next government, it would do away with Labor government’s legislated 2030 emissions target — a 43% … Read more
Given these power dynamics, the protests resulted in two key concessions: First, the EU put its trade talks with Mercosur nations Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on hold. Second, it carved out a rule that would have forced farmers to leave part of their land untouched, resting the soil and hopefully allowing biodiversity to flourish. … Read more
