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🗓️ 25 November 2024
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Officials at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, penned a new climate finance deal this weekend, with richer countries agreeing to pay $300 billion per year to help countries in the Global South cope with climate change. Also, Israel's ambassador to the US says that a ceasefire with Hezbollah could be implemented "within days." And, Nicaragua’s legislature appears set to approve a constitutional amendment that would elevate the wife of the country’s leader to a new role as “co-president.” Plus, legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, who remains wildly popular in Lebanon and the broader Middle East, turned 90 late last week.
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0:00.0 | A financial deal coming out of the COP Climate Summit left many countries frustrated, but they did agree on one thing. |
0:11.7 | A deal that was struck was better than no deal. I'm Marco Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Today, I'll look at the tensions coming out of the annual UN climate talks. Also, Israel and Hezbollah trade fire, |
0:23.0 | even as a ceasefire agreement, draws near. Each side thinks that they need to get in their final shot. |
0:29.8 | And a big constitutional change in Nicaragua gives its leaders more power than ever. |
0:34.0 | We have a new North Korea in the tropics. This is a tropical North Korea. |
0:39.2 | It's the only description of what has happened. |
0:41.9 | Plus, an iconic Lebanese singer turns 90. |
0:45.4 | I would definitely 100% call her discography |
0:48.3 | a national soundtrack for Lebanon and the Lebanese people. |
0:51.4 | Those stories and more today, here on the world. |
1:04.5 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for making it here today. |
1:11.5 | This weekend in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, officials at the annual UN Climate climate summit struck a climate finance deal. |
1:17.3 | Wealthier nations agreed to pay $300 billion a year to help developing nations cope with climate change. |
1:17.7 | It was a deal that made few countries happy, but still they reached an agreement. |
1:23.5 | Maloney Mera is chief executive of globe legislators, a nonprofit that works with lawmakers in countries across the world on climate issues. |
1:31.5 | She started by explaining how the initial amount of money per year could increase over the next decade. |
1:36.5 | The idea is that this is going to increase in quantum. |
1:39.8 | So $300 billion would be the flaw. |
1:42.4 | And there's an expectation that more could then be crowded in |
1:45.2 | on an annual basis reaching by 2035, 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars. So the guarantee is $300 billion a year, |
1:55.2 | or not the guarantee, because these goals are often not met. But that's what they're firmly |
1:59.2 | committing to. Absolutely. There is a very |
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