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2 weeks ago | 
barrons.com | Camille Camdessus |Kate Gillam
Microsoft President Brad Smith called Wednesday for a swift resolution of trade tensions between the United States and Europe, during an interview with AFP in Brussels. Transatlantic ties are at their lowest since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House and unleashed painful tariffs against allies and rivals alike within weeks. "There are real issues that deserve discussion.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
selmasun.com | Kate Gillam
The UN's marathon climate summit neared the finish line early Sunday, with nations due to approve or reject a hotly-disputed deal for wealthy historic emitters to provide at least $300 billion to poorer countries that had demanded much more.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
dailygazette.com | Shaun Tandon |Laurent Thomet |Nick Perry |Kate Gillam
The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday committing wealthy historic polluters to $300 billion annually for poor and vulnerable nations that had demanded far more to confront the crisis of global warming. After two exhaustive weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early hours beneath a sports stadium roof in Azerbaijan.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
dailygazette.com | Nick Perry |Laurent Thomet |Shaun Tandon |Kate Gillam
The European Union on Saturday raised an offer by rich nations to help poor countries worst hit by climate change to $300 billion a year in a bid to salvage talks that the developing world warned were on the brink of collapse. Negotiators worked through the night in a windowless sports stadium in the Caspian Sea city of Baku in a search for compromise as the two-week UN climate talks dragged into an extra day.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
bellevueheraldleader.com | Kate Gillam
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
dailygazette.com | Nick Perry |Laurent Thomet |Shaun Tandon |Kate Gillam
Fierce bargaining at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan dragged into Saturday after a $250 billion a year offer from rich nations was flatly refused by developing countries hardest hit by Earth's rapid warming. Negotiators from nearly 200 nations spent another harried and sleepless night in a sports stadium trying to land a compromise figure for poorer countries facing rising seas, harsher droughts and worsening disasters.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
news-shield.com | Kate Gillam
Negotiators raced Saturday to salvage UN climate talks after the poorest countries pushed back angrily for more than $300 billion a year in help from historic wealthy emitters.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dailygazette.com | Nick Perry |Laurent Thomet |Shaun Tandon |Kate Gillam
Heated negotiations on a global climate deal were set to spill into Saturday after developing nations rejected an initial $250 billion offer from rich countries to help them tackle global warming. COP29 hosts Azerbaijan said negotiations would drag "over the course of the night" in the Caspian Sea city Baku to produce a final text. This will be put before nearly 200 nations for consensus approval on Saturday, not expected earlier than 1000 (0600 GMT).
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
themercury.com | Nick Perry |Laurent Thomet |Shaun Tandon |Kate Gillam
A new draft deal at UN climate talks Friday proposes that rich nations commit $250 billion a year to help poorer nations combat global warming in an 11th-hour bid to break the deadlocked negotiations. African countries and climate activists quickly denounced the figure as "unacceptable" and inadequate to meet the realities of a rapidly warming world, but wealthy nations including the United States have insisted that massive packages are not politically realistic.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dailygazette.com | Nick Perry |Laurent Thomet |Shaun Tandon |Kate Gillam
A new draft deal at UN climate talks Friday proposes rich nations commit $250 billion a year to help poorer nations combat global warming in a bid to break the deadlocked negotiations. With the gathering scheduled to end Friday, delegates from nearly 200 nations had eagerly awaited COP29 hosts Azerbaijan's new proposal after two weeks of fraught bargaining.
