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Source: UN head Guterres contradicts Cop28 host on fossil fuel phaseout

The United Nations chief has said fossil fuels, not just their emissions, are the problem in the climate crisis, in an apparent rebuke to the United Arab Emirates Cop28 presidency.

Speaking after a meeting with civil society, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged countries to “progressively […]

Source: UN Paris meeting presses ahead with binding plastics treaty — U.S. resists

At a May-June meeting in Paris, the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) agreed to create, and submit by November, a first draft of an international plan to end plastic pollution by 2040. The United States declined to join the 58-nation “High […]

Source: A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Two members of the Sununu family, a powerful U.S. Republican Party dynasty, are among the directors or shareholders of Libero Copper, a copper mine promoted in the Colombian Amazon. John H. Sununu, a powerful former governor of New Hampshire and […]

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