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Activists participate in a demonstration against fossil fuels at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, November 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan
A NEW draft of a deal on cash to adapt to climate change released today afternoon at the United Nations climate summit (Cop29) “angered” developing nations.
The new draft deal set out in Azerbaijan capital Baku pledged just $250 billion (£198bn) by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones.
The amount is more than double the previous goal of $100bn (£79bn) a year set 15 years ago, but it’s less than a quarter of the amount demanded by developing nations struck hardest by extreme weather.
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
