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10/12/24
Author: 
Sofia Gonzales-Zuniga, Danial Riaz and Mia Moisio
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Nov. 20, 2024

Emissions from fossil fuel exports


In November 2023 at COP28, governments agreed to “transition away” from fossil fuels in the energy sector and reconfirmed this decision at the UN General Assembly in September 2024.

06/12/24
Author: 
Matthew Sledge
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Dec. 4, 2024

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

In the days after Donald Trump’s election, business leaders across a swath of industries celebrated the victory of a man they thought would bring them a financial bonanza. Crypto bros, oil and gas honchos, and tycoons looking to orchestrate mergers all did a victory dance.

30/11/24
Author: 
Julia Jacobo
Trump taps fracking CEO as energy secretary  President-elect Donald Trump announced Chris Wright, Liberty Energy CEO and climate policy critic, is his pick for energy secretary.

Nov. 19, 2024

"There is no climate crisis," Wright said in 2023.

Watch video here.

29/11/24
Author: 
Allison Morrill Chatrchyan
UN Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen and the COP29 President-Designate, H.E. Mukhtar Babayev the COP29 President-Designate address the press. (Photo: UNEP/Ahmed Nayim Yussuf)

Nov. 19, 2024

[Original Title: Why I’m not in Baku—and how to prevent further co-optation of UN climate summits]

24/11/24
Author: 
Jason Wilson
Pete Hegseth speaks to the media at the capitol in Washington DC on 21 November 2024. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/EPA

Nov. 22, 2024

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has written in a book that he could imagine a scenario in which the US armed forces would be used violently in American domestic politics.

Hegseth, a former elite soldier turned rightwing Fox television personality, is Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon which controls the gigantic American military – by far the largest armed force in the world.

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