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Brazil minister urges nations to show ‘courage’, embrace fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at COP30
Brazil’s Environment Minister, Marina Silva, has called on nations to demonstrate the “courage” needed to confront the climate crisis by…
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Why Emerging Economies Are Embracing AI
By Michael Spence Special to The Times Kuwait During a recent trip to Kazakhstan, I was struck by people’s enthusiasm…
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Brazil’s ‘mutirão’ spirit puts indigenous leadership at the heart of the climate fight
Brazil’s adoption of the term mutirão — meaning “collective effort” and rooted in Indigenous tradition — as the official slogan…
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Thousands rally at COP30 in Brazil demanding an end to fossil fuels
Thousands of climate protesters marched to the gates of the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, delivering a powerful message calling…
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Showdown looms at COP30 as dozens of countries push for fossil fuel phase-out roadmap
This year, momentum has grown. A broad coalition — including France, Colombia, Germany, Kenya, and many Small Island Developing States…
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What Europe Can Offer a Fragmenting World
By Ngaire Woods Special to The Times Kuwait At the recent ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, European Council President António…
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The key to unlocking private climate finance
By Lynn Forester de Rothschild Special to The Times Kuwait The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), now underway in…
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COP30 opens in the Amazon with urgent calls for climate action
Last year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, began with President Ilham Aliyev hailing oil — the fossil fuel driving…
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COP30 in Brazil, the ‘Conference of Truth’ faces a crucial climate test
As the COP30 climate summit opens in Belem, Brazil, nations are once again convening to set ambitious targets aimed at…
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AI Could Bury Future Generations in Cognitive Debt
By Bertrand Badré, Florian Ingen-Housz Special to The Times Kuwait The pianist Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is one of the…
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