ASIA: Race for new climate finance goal heats up: Push for China, UAE to join donor pool

Germany advocated expanding climate finance contributors to include wealthy, high-emission countries like China and Saudi Arabia, emphasizing the need for increased funds to support developing nations. The aim is to enhance the collective finance pool while maintaining leadership and responsibility among developed countries.

Discussions on the new target for climate finance to be provided to developing countries, replacing the 2009 goal of $100 billion, continue to be the focus in the run up to the Baku round of the UN climate talks. Germnay, among the top contributors of climate finance, is along with other developed countries pushing for expanding the group of countries that are obligated to provide developing countries with climate finance. 

25 October 2024

EU: EU ‘crisis’ as small country vows to keep controversial golden passport scheme

Malta is at the centre of a brewing crisis with the European Union as it remains the last member state to operate the controversial “golden passport” scheme. This program allows foreigners

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4 March 2024

US: IRS Chief Exposes $150 Billion Annual Tax Evasion by U.S. Wealthy

The head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently shed light on a staggering financial oversight, revealing that the nation’s wealthiest individuals are bypassing over $150 billion in

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11 October 2024

EU: EU drops Antigua and Barbuda from tax haven blacklist

The European Union removed Antigua and Barbuda from its tax haven blacklist on Tuesday, an instrument that has been slammed as ineffective in the past by anti-poverty groups. The list, approved by the

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20 January 2024

EU: Greens chief warns new debt rules will strengthen EU far right, Putin

Ahead of a vote in the European Parliament on new debt rules for EU countries, the Greens co-president Philippe Lamberts warned against the “end of the European Union as we know it” in a worst-case

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