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Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces that India will achieve carbon neutrality by 2070, two decades later than campaigners had hoped.
Asia Times
The Communist Party of China (CPC) may soon push for the recentralization of political and economic powers from local governments to safeguard sovereignty and maintain social stability if two artic…
The Spinoff
New Zealand’s youth are helping shape a declaration to Apec leaders as the region sets a plan spanning the next 20 years. The Spinoff spoke to three delegates ahead of the Apec youth summit. This content was created in paid partnership with Mfat. Jess Jenkins (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) do
Australian government’s new ‘plan’ to combat climate change may have little impact if coal mining continues.
Newsroom
We'll hear a lot in the next fortnight about the environment but too little about nature and biodiversity, writes Rod Oram, and the scale and urgency of that crisis can't be handled in isolation
Mother Jones
House committee to subpoena firms for documents in ongoing disinformation probe.
Asia Times
Net of inventory accumulation, real GDP for the third quarter was slightly negative, US government data released Thursday morning show. Real GDP grew at an annual rate of 2%, below the forecasters’…
The hearing in Congress marks the first time top oil executives have answered questions under oath
The Conversation
Nation-building is hard, but the alternative is worse. In the wake of Sudan’s coup, the rest of the world needs to act fast, before it is too late.
In the wake of China's test of a hypersonic missile, the second most senior US general said Thursday that the pace at which China's military is developing capabilities is "stunning" while US development suffers from "brutal" bureaucracy.
the Guardian
Before Cop26 in Glasgow, draft document indicates leaders meeting in Rome will pledge to take urgent steps to limit global warming
Newsroom
Vaccine incentives, rather than requirements, are best as the region opens back up to international travel after the Covid-19 pandemic, business representatives say.
Newshub
A new report highlights ten risks that could hinder economic growth following COVID-19.
www.abc.net.au
The pact would further strengthen Australia's diplomatic and security ties in a fast-growing area that has become a strategic battleground between the United States and China.
the Guardian
Tsai Ing-wen says self-ruled island is ‘on the front lines’ in the fight for democracy, while US president accuses China of undermining peace
The Conversation
New Zealanders won’t see the full text of the UK free trade agreement until it is signed, meaning it will proceed without open public debate – despite locking in constraints on future governments.
Stuff
A new UN report finds the world's biggest economies are failing to slow global warming
Asia Times
A week out from the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, all eyes are on two nations: China and the United States. Together, the superpowers are responsible for more than 40% of global carbon emi…
www.abc.net.au
Australia has joined the world in promising to make the nation carbon-neutral by 2050, ahead of a global climate change summit.
A joint Chinese and Russian naval exercise, in which a flotilla of 10 warships completed a near circle around Japan's main island, has been touted by the two countries as a means of ensuring stability in a volatile region.
Mother Jones
Moderna is still raking in profits will the Global South struggles to beat the virus.
Governments, human rights groups demand release of Sudanese civilian political leaders and reject apparent coup.
Asia Times
Xi Jinping’s aggressive foreign policy is stimulating increased international opposition to the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda, undoing years of effort by People’s Republic of China officials to …
Asia Times
The probability is that US President Joe Biden committed yet another diplomatic gaffe at a CNN town hall last Thursday when he said Washington had a commitment to come to Taiwan’s defense if it wer…
RNZ
Aotearoa New Zealand is leading a world-first event at Expo 2020 Dubai to support the resurgence of Indigenous and tribal economies.
RNZ
The 2021-2022 Pacific cyclone season has started, and officially runs from November 1, 2021 to the end of the cyclone season in 2022.
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