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Cop29: When world leaders failed the planet
Undaunted by Big Oil success, ALAN SIMPSON looks at alternatives to lack of courage and imagination stifling the Labour government and it policies
STANDS TO REASON: Climate change protest in Whitehall, central London in October 2022
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
THEY did their best — the climate activists, NGOs, environmental scientists, most of the delegates and civil servants — but it wasn’t enough. Big Oil won the day.
From the Azerbaijani hosts to the flock of corporate lobbyists, the determination to live in denial of today’s climate roller coaster again swept aside all objections from the world outside.
The need for trillions of dollars going into a “repair and damage” fund was replaced by the promise of millions. And even then, the track record of delivering climate finance has always fallen well short of the promises.
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