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Second round of discussions ends without significant progress on export credit policies
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams in Washington...
...It was “absurd” that the summit’s host Kenyan president William Ruto did not demand more payments from the Global North “for the years of devastation they have caused on our lands”, she added....
...Additional reporting by Kenza Bryan and Antoine Gara...
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams, Stefania Palma and Alice Hancock...
Plans launched by summit president Sultan al-Jaber ‘clearly fall short of what is required’, says António Guterres
Temperature peak in October follows four months in succession of exceptional weather
...For a taster of what’s in store, check out this FT Big Read on the United Arab Emirates’ “cheque book COP”, and Aime Williams’ handy primer on the hottest areas of debate....
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams...
...As HL Mencken, Upton Sinclair or William Jennings Bryan was said to have roughly quipped, it is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on their obliviousness....
...William Ruto: Our ambition is larger than just the SDRs....
..., Simeon Kerr and Kenza Bryan in Dubai....
...(Kenza Bryan) Smart reads Joe Biden’s plan to boost the financial might of the World Bank and the IMF is clearly explained in this FT Big Read....
...The host, Kenya’s president William Ruto said that the global “climate conversation” began in 1992 during a UN summit in Rio de Janeiro, but “this is the first African summit 31 years later”....
...William Ruto, who was elected less than a year ago, told the Financial Times the new non-aligned bank could help to close a shortfall of trillions of dollars needed to halt global warming....
...Smart read The US Environmental Protection Agency is set to face a wave of legal challenges to its latest crackdown on pollution, Aime Williams reports from Washington....
...“ETFs have held up better, while seeing lower initial flows,” Williams said....
..., Lord William Hague, the former UK foreign secretary, wrote last week....
...Lamont receives orders for around 12 screens a year. They also come up in auction sales....
...— An issue of trust (Mary Williams Walsh / Medium) — How misreading Adam Smith helped spawn deaths of despair (Boston Review) — Robert Brenner’s unprofitable theory of global stagnation (Jacobin) —...
...Speaking at the end of the summit, Kenya’s president William Ruto said there were more than 50 countries facing debt distress, warning there needed to be a “more creative way of dealing with this” problem...
...When I interviewed Kenya’s president William Ruto with my colleague Attracta Mooney last week, he was strongly in favour of regular taxes based on current emissions, describing the loss and damage debate...
...Kenya’s president William Ruto struck a frustrated note in one of the final sessions of the day, in which he asked why countries had failed to agree on a global tax on fossil fuels....
...Bryan Mercurio, a law professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said there were signs Beijing was open to a thaw in relations and more dialogue, which could help pave the way for potential meetings...
...CIA chief William Burns also came and told the Bolsonaro administration not to mess with the elections....
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