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Investment required for developing countries to face climate change

Climate Goals Depend On Fixing Global Finance: Top Economist

If world leaders and the heads of multilateral development banks gathered at a Paris summit recognise that climate goals depend on revamping the architecture of global finance, it would be a "historic" development, a top development economist said Thursday.
Graphic showing the finance needed per year to 2030 by developing countries to face climate change

Paris Climate Summit Seeks Global Finance Reform

Dozens of global leaders will gather in Paris Thursday for a summit to tease out a new consensus on international economic reforms to help debt-burdened developing countries face a growing onslaught of challenges, particularly climate change.
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China has refused to distance itself from Russian President Vladimir Putin

Chinese Premier In Germany As Western Mistrust Mounts

China's Premier Li Qiang will meet German leaders during a trip to Berlin on Monday, at a time when Beijing's policies on Russia, trade and human rights are receiving an increasingly hostile reception in the West.
World map showing exclusive economic zones and priority marine zones to protect, according to non-government organisations, the Pew Research Centre and the High Seas Alliance

UN To Finally Adopt High Seas Treaty

The world's first international treaty to protect the high seas is due to be adopted Monday at the United Nations, a historic environmental accord designed to protect remote ecosystems vital to mankind.
A handout picture released by the Rio Grande do Sul State Government shows firemen carrying a person in a flooded street in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil

Cyclone Leaves 13 Dead In Brazil

A cyclone which tore through southern Brazil over the past week has killed at least 13 people and forced thousands from their homes, authorities said Sunday in an update.
Last September the Tsanfleuron pass lost the ice that had covered it for 2,000 years

Swiss Vote On Net-zero Climate Law

The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate bill aimed at steering the country towards carbon neutrality by 2050.
Rows over issues such as the reopening of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine have created divisions inside the Greens

German Greens In Doldrums Over Bitter Compromises

When Germany's ecologist Greens hold a mini-party congress Saturday, members of the junior coalition party are expected to vent their fury over tradeoffs that have sent the party's popularity plunging.

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