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A villager holding umbrella to protect himself from sun, walks over parched land on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India on May 2, 2009
TENSE negotiations at the final meeting on an international fund to help poor countries hit the hardest by climate change ended on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.
Participants agreed that the World Bank would host the fund for the next four years.
But, the US and several developing countries expressed disappointment in the draft agreement, which will be sent for global leaders to sign at the Cop28 climate conference in Dubai later this month.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
ALASTAIR BONNETT reports on the paradoxes of populist attitudes towards protection of the natural world
