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At UN climate talks, cameras are everywhere. Many belong to Emirati company with a murky history

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At the United Nations' COP28 climate summit in Dubai, surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere you turn. And that has some worried.

Dec 10, 2023 5:36 AM Read more >

The EU wants to put a tax on emissions from imports. It's irked some other nations at COP28

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A European Union plan to tax the carbon pollution emitted to make goods imported from countries like India and China has sparked a debate at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, as poorer countries fear s

Dec 10, 2023 4:33 AM Read more >

Brazil's Lula takes heat on oil plans at UN climate talks, a turnaround after hero status last year

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fresh off election victory, a year ago Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was the star of the annual U.N. climate talks.

Dec 10, 2023 4:27 AM Read more >

Indigenous services minister to table First Nations water bill as early as Monday

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu is expected to table much-anticipated legislation to improve water quality in First Nations communities as early as Monday.

Dec 10, 2023 3:00 AM Read more >

Cows in Rotterdam harbor, seedlings on rafts in India; are floating farms the future?

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — On the top deck of a three-tiered structure moored near downtown Rotterdam, brown and white cows graze on hay dropped from a conveyor belt above their heads and rinds of oranges salvaged from supermarket juice machines i

Dec 9, 2023 8:58 PM Read more >

Agriculture gets its day at COP28, but experts see big barriers to cutting emissions

More than 100 world leaders at this year's United Nations climate summit agreed to make their farm and food systems a key part of their plans to fight climate change, seeking improvements in a sector that accounts for about a third of planet-warming

Dec 9, 2023 8:52 PM Read more >

Protests at UN climate talks, from cease-fire calls to detainees, see 'shocking level of censorship'

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai.

Dec 9, 2023 5:15 PM Read more >

Observers see OPEC 'panicking' as COP28 climate talks focus on possible fossil fuel phase-out

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Veteran negotiators at the United Nations climate talks Saturday said that the push to wean the world from dirty fossil fuels had gained so much momentum that they had poked a powerful enemy: the oil industry.

Dec 9, 2023 11:14 AM Read more >

Organizers of COP28 want an inclusive summit. But just how diverse is the negotiating table?

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Climate activist Lisa NoBaya sat in a room filled with stakeholders at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai and asked the delegates what inclusivity looks like at COP28: does it mean diverse voices are simply

Dec 9, 2023 8:58 AM Read more >

Fields of anxiety: Overcoming stigma to address mental health struggles of farmers

Christi Friesen remembers her husband saying he knew that the cloud of depression over her was finally lifting when he saw her smile at the end of the gruelling 2016 harvest season.

Dec 9, 2023 4:00 AM Read more >