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Cop26 emission pledges may limit global heating to below 2C

Plans by India, the world’s third biggest emitter, have made a sizeable difference to the global temperature estimate, research by the University of Melbourne has found.

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Pope Francis urges leaders to take ‘radical’ climate action at Cop26

Pope Francis has urged world leaders to take “radical decisions” at next week’s global environmental summit in a special message recorded for BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.

Leaders attending the Cop26 conference in Glasgow must offer “concrete hope to future generations”, the pontiff said.

Resistir los megaproyectos es hoy cuestión de supervivencia. Historia de los diferentes intentos por colonizar el corredor transístmico y de las resistencias que generan proyectos de esta naturaleza en el capitalismo contemporáneo. Sin perder piso, bien enraizados en nuestros lugares, necesitamos levantar la mirada. Por lo general, quienes luchan por resistir y defender su tierra y territorio o cualquier otra cosa, no piensan en la región, en el Istmo o en el sureste.

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Scrapping submarines deal broke trust, Macron tells Australian PM

The French president has told the Australian prime minister that the scrapping of a multibillion-dollar submarine contract “broke the relationship of trust” and said Canberra should propose “tangible actions” to heal a diplomatic rift.

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Indian supreme court orders inquiry into state’s use of Pegasus spyware

India’s supreme court has ordered an inquiry by an independent committee into the question of whether the government used Pegasus surveillance software for illegal spying.

For the domestic opposition, civil rights activists and the journalists who have been demanding such an inquiry in the face of stonewalling by the government, Wednesday’s ruling came as a victory.