The US president is notably absent from these UN climate talks, as are other world leaders, all of which prompts questions about the purpose of COP today.

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In Sierra Leone, desperate chimpanzees are raiding farms for food. This NGO is working to resolve this conflict by restoring their habitats.

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A trial will see drones feeding intelligence to assist officers, the Metropolitan Police says.

French multinational is ordered to remove its website messages about aiming for carbon neutrality

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Accommodation is scarce in Belém during COP30. Activist groups want to be there to influence the talks, but can they make their voices heard?

Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’ * UK politics live – latest updates Government ministers met representatives from the fossil fuel industry more than 500 times during their first year in power – equivalent to twice every working day, according to new research. The analysis found that fossil fuel lobbyists were present at 48% more ministerial meetings during Labour’s first year in power than under the Conservatives in 2023. Ministers at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) met fossil fuel lobbyists 274 times, with industry figures present at almost a quarter of meetings. Ed Miliband, the secretary for energy and climate change, met fossil fuel lobbyists 250 times – with a third of all his meetings attended by industry figures. During the same period DESNZ ministers met trade union representatives 61 times Three fossil fuel companies: BP, Shell and Equinor , met ministers 100 times between them. Fossil fuel lobbyists attended almost every government meeting about the energy profits levy, a temporary windfall tax on the “extraordinary profits” of North Sea oil and gas companies. Continue reading...

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

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