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      Cop28: backlash after president claims ‘no science’ behind fossil fuel phase-out – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 December - 06:38

    Summit negotiations continue in wake of Sultan Al Jaber’s claim there is ‘no science’ indicating a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C

    The Prime Minister of Barbados and one of the world’s foremost negotiators on loss and damage, Mia Mottley, has kicked off finance day at Cop with a press conference.

    She said: “We are living in the age of superlatives. Temperature and extreme weather records are tumbling, and our finance systems cannot cope”.

    Adaptation, mitigation, loss and damage. Those have been the three areas that we have been focused on for the last few years. This has probably been the most progress we’ve seen in the last twelve months on finance but we’re not where we need to be at, so first of all I want to give thanks and I really do want to give thanks to Dr Sultan for his leadership and determination that we should leave Dubai with progress even if we are not at the final destination.

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      World leaders must ‘stop dawdling and start doing’, says top UN climate official

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 24 November - 18:16

    Exclusive: Simon Stiell, will oversee crucial climate summit Cop28 in Dubai where he will campaign for faster action

    World leaders must “stop dawdling and start doing” on cutting carbon emissions, as rapidly rising temperatures this year have put everyone on the front line of disaster, the UN’s top climate official has warned.

    No country could think itself immune from catastrophe, warned Simon Stiell, who will oversee the crucial Cop28 climate summit that begins next week, when scores of world leaders will arrive in Dubai for tense talks on how to tackle the crisis.

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      Barbora Krejcikova bat Iga Swiatek et remporte le tournoi de Dubai

      sport.movim.eu / LEquipe · Saturday, 25 February, 2023 - 17:15


    Barbora Krejcikova a remporté son premier tournoi WTA 1000. (Rob Prange/AFP7/Presse Sports) La Tchèque Barbora Krejcikova a dominé la numéro 1 mondiale, Iga Swiatek en deux sets (6-4, 6-2) et a remporté le tournoi WTA de Dubai ce samedi.