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Two-Thirds of Climate Funding for Global South are Loans as Rich Nations Profiteer from Escalating Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
THE HAGUE, Netherlands , October 8 (IPS) - New research by Oxfam and the CARE Climate Justice Centre finds developing countries are now paying more back to wealthy nations for climate finance loans than they receive—for every USD 5 they receive, they are paying USD 7 back, and 65 percent of funding is delivered in the form of loans.
Explainer: COP30’s ‘Granary of Solutions’ Will Be Showroom of World’s Best Climate Fixes
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, October 8 (IPS) - Once a year, the COP presidency or the role held by the Minister of Environment from the host government at a Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting, sets out on an ambitious, year-long journey in hopes of delivering the climate deal of a lifetime.
UN chief calls for Israel and Hamas to ‘abide fully’ by terms of US peace plan
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that Israel and Hamas have “signed off” on the first phase of his 20-point peace plan, following days of intensive indirect negotiations in Egypt.
UN decries deadly Myanmar airstrike, amid mounting military attacks on civilians
- UN News
The United Nations has condemned a Myanmar airstrike that killed dozens of civilians, including children, calling it part of a “disturbing pattern” of indiscriminate attacks by the country’s military.
UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ by deadly protests in Madagascar
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed the need for dialogue in Madagascar as anti-government demonstrations enter a third week.
Haiti: ‘Unprecedented’ number of children on the run
- UN News
The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted from their homes, a new UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Child Alert report found.
Ministers from Europe and beyond commit to address housing emergency
- UN News
Across Europe and beyond, housing costs are rising faster than incomes and many families are spending up to half their salary just to have a place to call home.
WHO says rebuilding Gaza’s shattered health system critical to a lasting peace
- UN News
As indirect talks in Egypt seeking to end Gaza’s two-year war continue, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) says rebuilding the devastated health system is critical to securing lasting peace and stability.
Syria’s search for truth is a ‘collective effort’, top UN investigator says
- UN News
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years under the Assad dictatorship, including during 14 years of civil war which began in 2011.
Peace begins behind bars: A corrections officer’s fight for dignity inside Congo’s prisons
- UN News
The offer sounded almost unreal. The UN was fishing around for someone with a knack for building prisons – preferably a woman – to join its mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Would she go?
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