People walk through the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, November 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan
MORE than two dozen world leaders delivered remarks at the United Nations’ annual climate conference (Cop29) today, detailing first-hand experiences with catastrophic weather that has come with the climate emergency.
Leader after leader recounted climate disasters hitting their countries.
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell describing a 15-month drought at the beginning of the year giving way to category 5 Hurricane Beryl.
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
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
