Fossil fuel extraction compatible with climate action, says COP29 host Azerbaijan
The Azerbaijani presidency made that claim while presenting a flurry of initiatives for the Baku summit.
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Russia’s sanction-proofed economy is helping it avoid a defeat in Ukraine
The American right’s destructive isolationism, Europe’s arguably glacial approach, and sanctions that haven’t fully impeded the Kremlin all make Russia’s expulsion increasingly unlikely.
To save the climate, change the game for petrostates
Future negotiations should focus more on reshaping incentives for oil and gas producing countries, and less on fulminating at their villainy.
EU closing eyes to Belarus sanctions loopholes, opposition leader says
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says trade penalties on Minsk ‘have such huge loopholes that they don’t work effectively.’
Norway reluctant to ban deep sea mining in the Arctic, despite French pressure
Thirty-one countries have pledged to stop all deep-sea mining in the polar regions at the One Planet Polar Summit, which ended in Paris on Friday (10 November), in a deal that Norway has not yet signed amid criticism of its recent decision to allow Arc…