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The global climate protection agenda takes centre stage at the UN, in the largest case in the world courts (ICJ) history a week after the hearings came a week after COP29, which almost failed to reach accord. Global climate protection agenda The UN’s top court begins landmark hearings Monday on global climate protection guidelines. Vanuatu and Pacific island nations lead proceedings before 15 judges. The hearings came a week after COP29, when wealthy nations agreed to provide $300 billion per year in climate finance for developing nations — an outcome critics slammed as inadequate. Over two weeks, 100+ countries and organisations, the highest-ever number will present reports on safeguarding vulnerable nations from climate change impacts. What will the Global climate protection hearings do? The hearing will attempt to answer key questions as to what countries should do to fight climate change and, critically, what should they do to repair damages linked to rising temperatures. While the outcome is not legally binding, it could give extra weight to climate change lawsuits all over the world. It is the largest case in the world courts history The global climate protection guideline case is the largest case in the world court’s 80-year history. It will hear from 99 countries and more than a dozen intergovernmental organizations over two weeks. The outcome of the hearings could result in grounds for establishing legal obligations worldwide. The hearings will continue until December 13. The court’s opinion is expected to be delivered in 2025. Climate change corruption One of the issues with climate change is how it has become so corrupt. So many companies are manipulating the regulations and finding of reports to suit their commercial purposes. Companies are using off-shoots or funded think tanks to propose reports that are skewered in their favour and thus do not present the truth. One of these methods is by claiming they are Net Zero, legally, companies are buying certificates from the lowest bidder to offset their greenhouse emissions and in some cases, using ventures, which are funded by climate change initiatives to trade emsions. Carbon markets – a key part of climate finance – allow governments and non-state actors to trade greenhouse gas emission credits to help reduce global emissions. There are two types: compliance and voluntary markets. The UN acknowledges that – it states on its website, ‘While significant funds and efforts have been invested in the climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, corruption can distort decision making.’ Read more opinions on the story The Irish News – Climate change case to open at UN court as island nations fear rising seas France 24 – UN top court opens landmark hearings on climate protection guidelines TED Talk on Climate Change
The global climate protection agenda takes centre stage at the UN, in the largest case in the world courts (ICJ) history a week after the hearings came a week after COP29, which almost failed to reach accord.
Global climate protection agenda
The UN’s top court begins landmark hearings Monday on global climate protection guidelines. Vanuatu and Pacific island nations lead proceedings before 15 judges.
The hearings came a week after COP29, when wealthy nations agreed to provide $300 billion per year in climate finance for developing nations — an outcome critics slammed as inadequate.
Over two weeks, 100+ countries and organisations, the highest-ever number will present reports on safeguarding vulnerable nations from climate change impacts.
What will the Global climate protection hearings do?
The hearing will attempt to answer key questions as to what countries should do to fight climate change and, critically, what should they do to repair damages linked to rising temperatures.
While the outcome is not legally binding, it could give extra weight to climate change lawsuits all over the world.
It is the largest case in the world courts history
The global climate protection guideline case is the largest case in the world court’s 80-year history. It will hear from 99 countries and more than a dozen intergovernmental organizations over two weeks.
The outcome of the hearings could result in grounds for establishing legal obligations worldwide.
The hearings will continue until December 13. The court’s opinion is expected to be delivered in 2025.
Climate change corruption
One of the issues with climate change is how it has become so corrupt. So many companies are manipulating the regulations and finding of reports to suit their commercial purposes.
Companies are using off-shoots or funded think tanks to propose reports that are skewered in their favour and thus do not present the truth.
One of these methods is by claiming they are Net Zero, legally, companies are buying certificates from the lowest bidder to offset their greenhouse emissions and in some cases, using ventures, which are funded by climate change initiatives to trade emsions.
Carbon markets – a key part of climate finance – allow governments and non-state actors to trade greenhouse gas emission credits to help reduce global emissions. There are two types: compliance and voluntary markets.
The UN acknowledges that – it states on its website, ‘While significant funds and efforts have been invested in the climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, corruption can distort decision making.’
Read more opinions on the story
The Irish News – Climate change case to open at UN court as island nations fear rising seas
France 24 – UN top court opens landmark hearings on climate protection guidelines
TED Talk on Climate Change
What is the world court?
The world court is the International Court of Justice based in the Hague, in the Netherlands. It is one of the 6 organs of the United Nations
What are Carbon markets?
Carbon markets are virtual markets where corporation and countries can go and buy services that offset against their emissions.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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December 7, 2024
11:19 am
Storm Darragh live: wind batters UK and Ireland as Met Office issues rare red ‘danger to life’ warning
Thousands of people across Northern Ireland, England and Wales have been left without power
As well as strong winds, Darragh is also expected to bring heavy rain over the weekend, with more than 120 flood alerts in place this morning.
An amber warning for rain is in place in Wales from 3am to 6pm on Saturday with heavy rain likely to lead to disruption to transport and infrastructure.
Storm Darragh live: wind batters UK and Ireland as Met Office issues rare red ‘danger to life’ warning
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2024/dec/07/storm-darragh-uk-weather-warning-wind-met-office-latest-news
December 7, 2024
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December 7, 2024
8:31 am
The Syrian regime lost control Friday of the symbolic southern city of Daraa and most of the eponymous province, which was the cradle of the country’s 2011 uprising, a war monitor said.
“Local factions have taken control of more areas in Daraa province, including Daraa city… They now control more than 90 percent of the province, as regime forces successively pulled out,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syrian government loses control of southern city of Daraa
In Daraa province, only the Sanamayn area is still in government hands, Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the British-based monitor with a network of sources in Syria, told news agency AFP.
Earlier Friday, local factions seized the Nassib-Jaber border crossing with Jordan, the Observatory said, with Jordan closing its side of the crossing, Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya said.
Daraa province was the cradle of the 2011 uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, but it returned to regime control in 2018 under a ceasefire deal brokered by Assad ally Russia.
It was a rebel bastion at the height of the civil war in the early 2010s.
Former rebels there who accepted the 2018 deal were able to keep their light weapons.
Daraa province has been plagued by unrest in recent years, with frequent attacks, armed clashes and assassinations, some claimed by the US funded Islamic State group.
Syria’s civil war, which began with Assad’s crackdown on democracy protests, has killed more than 500,000 people and forced more than half the population to flee their homes.
Never in the war had Assad’s forces lost control of so many key cities
Never in the war had Assad’s forces lost control of so many key cities in such a short space of time.
Since a rebel alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched its offensive on November 27, the government has lost second city Aleppo and subsequently Hama in central Syria.
The rebels were on Friday at the gates of Homs, Syria’s third city, as the government pulled out its troops from Deir Ezzor in the east.
The rebels launched their offensive the same day a ceasefire took effect in neighbouring Lebanon in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Lebanese group has been an important Assad ally, alongside Russia and Iran.
Turkey, which has backed the opposition, said it would hold talks with Russia and Iran in Qatar this weekend.
Ahead of the talks, the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq and Syria met in Baghdad, where Syria’s Bassam al-Sabbagh accused the government’s enemies of seeking to “redraw the political map”.
Iran’s Abbas Araghchi pledged to provide Assad’s government with “whatever (support) is needed”.
But Tehran has started to withdraw its military commanders and personnel, including some diplomatic staff, from Syria, the New York Times reported Friday, citing unnamed regional officials and three Iranian officials.
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