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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Sir Mack Rice

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This evening's music features r&b singer and songwriter Sir Mack Rice. Enjoy!

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"That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude."

-- Alexander Haig

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News and Opinion

Israel Supporters Always Pretend To Believe Things They Don’t Actually Believe

The New York Times has published a story about a supposed Iranian plot to use chemical weapons which nobody actually believes.

Not even the perpetually war-horny New York Times tries to frame this as a real news report, presenting it instead as a subject of tense division inside the Trump White House. Here’s an excerpt:

“Israel has shared intelligence with the United States asserting that Iran is considering the use of chemical weapons against its adversaries, information met with alarm by some American officials and deep skepticism by others, according to U.S. and regional officials.

“Some American officials see the Israeli intelligence as part of a pressure campaign by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to persuade the Trump administration to return to major combat operations against Iran.

“Other officials believe the threats should be taken seriously, given the recent array of warnings about Iran’s preparations to attack American interests.”

To be clear, not one single person anywhere on earth believes this is true. Israel doesn’t believe it. Washington doesn’t believe it. Nobody reading about it in the New York Times believes it. But we’re hearing about it anyway like it’s a real thing, because too many powerful people want more bombing in Iran.

BREAKING: Israel has informed the United States it has intelligence that Iran is 'considering the use of chemical weapons against its adversaries', according to New York Times report.

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) November 3, 2026

Israel supporters are unique in the way literally all of them constantly pretend to believe things they don’t actually believe.

Over the years I’ve argued with members of every political ideology on earth, and I’ve never encountered any group who does this like Zionists do. Other ideological factions might hold idiotic and downright evil beliefs, but for the most part they tend to actually believe the things they are saying.

Not so with Israel supporters. I’ve been interacting with them for years, often over extended conversations just to understand their arguments and their worldview, and what stands out the most in these interactions is the way they constantly lie about what they think is true.

They’ll pretend to believe a given high-profile critic of Israeli atrocities hates Jews just to help marginalize their voice. They’ll pretend to believe Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons in order to help drum up support for war. They’ll pretend to believe antisemitism is one of the most urgent and dangerous threats to our society today in order to push for more laws against pro-Palestine protests. They’ll pretend to believe every human rights group on earth is lying about Israel committing genocide in order to help Israel commit more genocidal crimes against humanity.

In my time I have argued with many individuals who misrepresent my beliefs and the beliefs of other people, but Israel supporters are the only ideological group I’ve ever encountered who consistently misrepresent THEIR OWN beliefs.

You don’t believe that. You’re just pretending to believe that to promote the interests of a genocidal apartheid state.

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 5, 2026

I’ve seen it over and over and over again. I’ll corner them on one of the claims they are making about what they believe, completely dismantling their given reasons for why they believe what they claim to believe, and they’ll just shift to some other reason justifying the existence of their belief.

And this should not be surprising. If you would support genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, of course you would lie about your own beliefs to advance those agendas. Bad people do bad things. If genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid do not bother you, then you are unlikely to have ethical qualms about communicating without intellectual honesty.

These days I mostly just respond to such people by saying “You don’t really believe that. You’re just pretending to believe that in order to advance the interests of a genocidal apartheid state.” It’s the only way to deal with a group who literally never engages in good faith on any level.

Israel supporters need to do this because their worldview is not grounded in truth or morality. They don’t hold their position because it is morally or factually correct, they hold it to advance personal agendas like career advancement, ladder-climbing, getting into Heaven, getting those tasty hasbara bucks, or winning the approval of their Zionist friends and family.

In a healthy civilization, supporting Israel would be as culturally toxic as loving Adolf Hitler or advocating the legalization of child sex trafficking. But we do not live in a healthy civilization. We live under a murderous, globe-spanning empire that is held together by lies and endless bloodshed. Zionism is rewarded and amplified because its evils are shared with the evils of the rest of the western imperial power structure which is choking our world to death.

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The midterms were a thumping rebuke of the US-Israel relationship

On the eve of a midterm election that ended in an unequivocal rejection of his brand of politics, even Donald Trump seemed to recognize that the US-Israel relationship had become a political liability. Trump’s 11th-hour suggestion, on election morning, that he would cut military aid to Israel at the end of the year because, as he put it, “they don’t need it”, was condemned across the board – with pro-Palestinian advocates dismissing it as “desperate” and pro-Israel ones as “unserious”.

Trump’s suggestion that he would replace nearly $4bn in annual military aid with arms sales signaled little would change in practice – the funding would continue and it would be harder to track. But it was still a notable recognition by the president of just how much support for Israel has tanked against the backdrop of the latest war in Gaza, which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, been widely been described as a genocide, and reshaped US politics in ways unthinkable just three years ago.

Indeed, come January, the US House will include an army doctor who went on a medical mission in Gaza, a lawyer who was fired by her firm over a blogpost criticizing Israel’s war, a Jewish lawmaker who was recently detained by Israeli forces while helping Palestinians harvest olives in the occupied West Bank, and a community organizer who participated in a pro-Palestine student encampment and scored one of the primary season’s most stunning upsets under the banner “babies, not bombs”.Pro-Palestinian candidates – including Palestinian-American ones – have won downballot races.

“The old bipartisan consensus on Israel is over,” Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said. Without that consensus in place, the next Congress could push a number of measures, from an arms embargo on Israel to sanctions against violent settlers and officials – though Trump would retain veto power to block them. The vote was also a rejection of Trump’s war in Iran – something even JD Vance said on Wednesday was “obvious to almost everyone”. Foreign policy issues rarely determine US elections – that is, until those issues have a direct effect on Americans’ lives at home.

Across the country, and up and down the ballot, unabashedly pro-Palestinian candidates defeated pro-Israel ones despite groups like Aipac pouring tens of millions of dollars into a failed attempt to reverse Israel’s collapsing standing among US voters.

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Israel’s election commission rejects Netanyahu claims of voting fraud

Israel’s election commission on Wednesday confirmed the final results of last week’s vote that stripped Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition of its governing majority, rejecting claims of mass fraud promoted by the prime minister. The main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, said Netanyahu had launched a “pogrom against democracy” in attempting to hold on to power by discrediting valid votes and weaponising security forces against parties led by Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Hours earlier, Israel’s attorney general said she had blocked a demand from the Shin Bet security service to interrogate senior politicians from the Palestinian-led parties because she had not been presented with any evidence of wrongdoing. “In a country governed by the rule of law, neither citizens nor elected officials can be interrogated without evidence that justifies doing so,” Gali Baharav-Miara said in a statement, after Haaretz reported on the attempt to target four politicians.

Election authorities on Wednesday presented the final results to the president, Isaac Herzog, after rejecting allegations they had been tainted by large-scale foreign interference and voter fraud.

“The review found no evidence of irregularities that compromised the integrity of the election or affected its results,” the Central Elections Committee said in a statement.

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‘Power of the Purse’: Schumer Indicates Democrats Will Defund Trump’s Illegal Iran War

Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday indicated that his party will defund President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran when it takes over as the majority next year.

While speaking with reporters, Schumer (D-NY) was asked how Democrats planned to end the war, which Trump launched without congressional authorization in February.

“We are going to end the war,” said Schumer. “We already have some Republicans who have joined us in ending the war. And the Founding Fathers had the power of the purse as one of the ways of deterring a president who does war without the consent of the American people.”

Q: How are Democrats going to end the war?

SCHUMER: The Founding Fathers had the power of the purse as one of the ways of deterring a president who does war without the consent of the American people https://t.co/UZdb601W7h

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 4, 2026

Democrats on Tuesday secured majorities in the US House of Representatives and the Senate, and Democrats will have at least 54 members in the congressional upper chamber.

Earlier this year, four Republicans in the Senate—Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)—voted with the vast majority of Democrats to pass a war powers resolution aimed at compelling Trump to end the Iran War.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the lone Democrat to oppose the measure.

While Cassidy and Collins will leave office at the end of this year, a full majority in both chambers of Congress will enable Democrats to go beyond passing war powers resolutions and cut off funding for the US Department of Defense until Trump agrees to wind down the conflict.

Schumer’s remarks on defunding the war came shortly after Vice President JD Vance posted a message on social media acknowledging that voter dissatisfaction with the war, and the subsequent rise in energy prices caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, were the major reasons for Republicans’ defeat.

“The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote. “The president himself said so last night. If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost.”

Vance’s statement also earned the endorsement of Donald Trump Jr., who may or may not have understood that it was an implicit criticism of his father’s decision-making.

“Every word of this,” the president’s eldest son—who, along with Vance, may run for the White House in 2028—wrote in response to the vice president.

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Major losses could spur Trump to escalate war before year's end

As much as the Iran war is the key reason Trump and the GOP were crushed tonight, it is important to recognize that the pressure for war is now likely to increase. Trump was under a degree of pressure to strike a deal before the midterms, hoping to soften the blow in the polls. But now that the midterms are over, that pressure will dissipate somewhat. Gas prices are still high, but the political cost has already been paid. There won’t be another point on the political calendar for some time when that cost can be exacted again.

But two other factors will intensify.

First, pro-war elements in Israel and in Washington will see the next two months as the last period in which Trump has wide maneuverability to restart the war. By January, the Democrats will control both chambers, will control the purse, and can begin impeaching Trump’s secretaries, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. While Trump’s freedom of maneuver will not be completely constrained, it will be significantly reduced. In fact, it could happen sooner, given that current government funding expires on December 11.

Secondly, while Trump’s decision to start the war in February was driven by hubris and criminally erroneous Israeli advice, another emotion may dominate his thinking going forward: vengeance. There has been a vindictive element to his calculations in the past weeks because of his anger over how Iran — in Trump’s mind — has ruined his presidency. That anger must be going through the roof tonight.

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Trump Denies That He’s Considering Firing Hegseth, But Says He’d Be ‘Very Popular’ in Tennessee Senate Seat

President Trump has denied that he’s considering firing War Secretary Pete Hegseth after CBS News reported that the president had asked his top aides whether the Pentagon chief should keep his job after the Republican defeat in the midterm elections.

The Atlantic also reported before the midterms that Trump questioned allies about Hegseth’s performance, as he may be looking for a potential fall guy for the Iran war. But when asked on Wednesday if he was considering replacing Hegseth, the president said, “No, I think he’s doing a very good job.”

The president did suggest that he may favor the idea of him taking Marsha Blackburn’s Senate seat after she won the Tennessee governor race. “I think he’s doing a very good job, and I actually think he’d be very popular if he did that,” Trump said when asked about the possibility. “But I haven’t heard that at all.”

The Hill recently reported that Hegseth was interested in the open Senate seat, which expires in 2031, and is campaigning behind the scenes for the position.

'LAWYER UP': DEMS Plan Historic Corruption Investigation

Top Democrat tells Trump and Republicans to ‘lawyer up’ after US midterm defeats

Robert Garcia, the Democratic congressman set to become the next chair of the oversight committee of the House of Representatives, had two words for Republicans on Tuesday evening: “Lawyer up.” Garcia issued his statement as a blue wave appeared to take hold across the country after voters cast their ballots in the US midterm elections. Democrats retook control of the US Senate, and are widely expected to do the same in the House.

Garcia, who currently serves as the ranking member of the oversight committee, is expected to become its chair. The House oversight committee serves as a “watchdog” committee and has broad authority to call witnesses, request government documents and issue subpoenas.

Garcia has previously said that, if Democrats won, he would lead investigations into Elon Musk’s role in the “department of government efficiency (Doge)”, the Trump family’s business dealings, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abuses and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. “We’re not starting from scratch here,” Garcia previously told Punchbowl News. “There’s an enormous amount of work that has happened that is public, and there’s an enormous amount of work that’s happened that we’ve been quietly working on for many months.”

US prosecutors drop criminal charges against scientist detained over frog embryos

Federal prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against a Russian scientist who spent four months in immigration detention after flying into Boston with frog embryos intended for cancer research at Harvard Medical School.

Kseniia Petrova, 31, was arrested in March 2025 after returning from a vacation in France, where she had visited a laboratory specializing in cutting extremely thin sections of frog embryos. During her visit, she obtained a package of samples for her research back in the US.

Customs officials questioned Petrova about the samples when she arrived at Logan international airport. She was later charged with smuggling, concealing facts and making false statements to government officials.

Petrova’s case was one of the many shocking, high-profile, immigration-related arrests, especially involving academics, in the early months after Donald Trump returned to the White House promising a crackdown on immigration. Petrova had fled Russia after being arrested for protesting against the invasion of Ukraine, and colleagues at Harvard University called her research talents “spectacular”.

On Wednesday, the US district judge Leo Sorokin granted prosecutors’ request to dismiss all charges against Petrova without holding a hearing. The case began unraveling when a federal judge determined that a customs officer had improperly canceled Petrova’s visa. Her attorneys had challenged the criminal prosecution, arguing that the charges were vindictive and had been filed only after it appeared Petrova would prevail in her immigration case.

Colorado rejects conservative effort to require police to cooperate with immigration officers

Colorado voters have spurned a conservative group’s effort to force police and prosecutors to aid the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Amendment 81, which failed to receive 55% of the vote on Tuesday, would have required Colorado’s law enforcement agents to notify federal immigration authorities if individuals accused of violent crime were not lawfully present in the US or if their legal status was undetermined.

The mandate also included a 72-hour deadline for law enforcement to alert the Department of Homeland Security after filing charges for crimes, such as murder, assault and arson, against possibly undocumented individuals.

Proponents for the measure, including the conservative non-profit Advance Colorado, reportedly argued it would ensure public safety by removing undocumented people who had committed crimes, or repeat offenders, from the country. Critics of amendment 81 panned the measure, saying it took charges as evidence of criminality rather than as allegations. “Being accused of a crime is not the same as being convicted, and our laws need to respect that distinction,” Shad Murib, the Colorado Democratic party chair, said in a Wednesday statement.

JD Vance Hangs Hegseth To Save Himself

Pete Hegseth may take fall for Republicans’ midterm losses, despite Trump support

Pete Hegseth is increasingly looking like he may take the fall for Republicans’ midterm losses, despite Donald Trump’s vocal support for his defense secretary, even calling him a champion of war. The war in Iran, which voters and Trump have named as a key reason for Republicans’ midterm losses, “has been primarily a Department of War-led effort because you chose to take military action to resolve a foreign policy matter”, a former senior Pentagon official told CNN.

“If the president is serious about anyone taking responsibility for it, it’s Pete Hegseth,” one Republican close to the White House added in an interview with CNN. “Pete has been either dishonest or incorrect – neither of which are acceptable – about timelines, goals and objectives since the beginning.” On Wednesday, JD Vance publicly questioned whether the Iran war was worth it and said it cost Republicans control of Congress.

Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, has already filed eight impeachment accusations against Hegseth, and plans to soon force a House vote on the impeachment. Trump has repeatedly defended Hegseth and, in speaking with reporters on Wednesday about whether he was considering replacing Hegseth, said: “No, I think ⁠he’s doing a very good job.”

Trump boasts about ‘magnificent’ ballroom day after Republican rout

Less than 24 hours after suffering historic party losses in the US midterm elections, Donald Trump gathered reporters and network TV cameras at the White House to congratulate his team. “The whole thing is a miracle, and it’s all because of you,” the US president said into a microphone on Wednesday afternoon. He was not referring to the blue wave that swept the country as Democrats retook control of the US Congress, but his controversial White House ballroom.

Standing on the construction site on Wednesday, the US president boasted about the ballroom’s “magnificent” columns carved out of limestone, 50ft-high ceilings, ability to hold more than 300 guests, heavy-set beams, “drone-proof” roof, thick marble floors and military-grade bunker. He went into great detail about the construction of the ballroom, seemingly teasing the fact that it would open soon. He pivoted to discuss his love for construction projects, and his other controversial efforts to beautify Washington DC.

For more than 20 minutes, there was no mention of the elephant in the room: the fact that dozens of Trump-endorsed candidates in competitive races for the Senate and House of Representatives nationwide lost their elections to Democrats on Tuesday. When Doug Burgum, the secretary of the interior, took the microphone, he declared Wednesday to be “a day of celebration and a day of gratitude”. Only when the US president finally took questions from reporters did he address his party’s dismal performance in the midterms, seemingly unfazed that Democrats outperformed expectations.

“Look, I’ll get along probably with the Democrats, unless they want to be destructive, but I have the power of the veto,” Trump said. He admitted it was “largely true” that the war with Iran played a role in helping Democrats, because it drove up fuel prices, but insisted the conflict was worth it.

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US voters rebuke Trump as Democrats win control of Congress in ‘blue wave’

With counting still going on in a couple of Senate races, and with 68 House seats as yet undeclared, Democrats were assured of a congressional majority far more comfortable than most pundits had predicted. They had flipped at least seven Senate seats, in such deep-red states as Texas and Kansas, which hadn’t sent a Democrat to the upper chamber for 94 years, along with more than two dozen House districts.

Having made his final pre-election appeal to voters with a bizarre speech focusing on algae and grass from Washington’s Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, Trump resurfaced on Wednesday afternoon to deliver his first remarks since the election from the construction site of his controversial White House ballroom.

Within hours of polls closing, the political fallout began to descend on Trump and the Republican leadership. The White House put out an Instagram post saying, “PSA: TRUMP IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT”, without adding that his power was now vastly diminished.

Vice-President JD Vance, whose old Ohio Senate seat was one of those that fell to the Democrats, began his long and no doubt fraught journey to distance himself from Trump before the 2028 presidential election. He instantly blamed the Republican rout on Trump’s war with Iran.

“The reason we lost is the war,” he said on X. “If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.”

This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer. https://t.co/M2ye9fiPSk

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) November 4, 2026

Montana Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Ballot Initiative to Ban Corporate Cash From Political Campaigns

Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state.

With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has received support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.

The initiative prohibits what it describes as “artificial persons”—which includes corporations, nonprofits, trusts, partnerships, and trade associations—from giving money to political campaigns.

Supporters of the initiative have billed it as a way to strike a blow against the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which opened the door to unlimited campaign spending in US politics.

“A yes vote on I-194 means that only real people—not corporations, unions, trade associations, nonprofits, or groups with anonymous donors—are allowed to spend money in Montana elections,” the Yes on Initiative 194 campaign explained on its website. “It’s time to kick the oligarchs out of Big Sky country.”

Trump Reacts to the Midterms

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Datacenters were on the ballot. US voters rejected them

There were three big losers in Tuesday’s midterm elections in the US: Donald Trump, Elon Musk and datacenters. Datacenters, the facilities full of semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence and a host of other online products, were on the ballot in elections in at least 40 jurisdictions across 10 states. Voters responded with a strong rebuke of the giant buildings, which have has become a symbol of the tech industry and AI.

In Ohio alone, at least 14 municipalities passed bans or restrictions on datacenter development, including in Sunbury, where Amazon has proposed a $2m datacenter project. In Maine, eight municipalities passed temporary datacenter moratoriums. In Emporio, Kansas, where a 1,000-acre gigawatt-scale datacenter was recently proposed, a ban on high-impact datacenters was approved by voters. Voters approved nearly every datacenter moratorium that was on the ballot, dozens in total, with one notable exception: Hardwood, North Dakota. The small city of a population of less than 1,000 people voted down a bill that would impose restrictions on datacenter development.

Where datacenters were not explicitly on the ballot, officials who have pushed back against their development were elected. In Texas, Democrat Gina Hinojosa, who secured a historical victory as governor on Tuesday night over her Republican opponent, has promised to impose moratoriums on their construction. She has pledged to implement greater restrictions on and community input into whether datacenters can be built. Towards the end of his tenure, Greg Abbott, her Republican opponent, had also tried to capitalize on anti-datacenter sentiment, demanding an end to electricity subsidies for them. He reversed his previous stance that had welcomed datacenters to the state. Keisha Lance Bottoms, who became governor of Georgia, and Amy Acton, the newly elected governor of Ohio, have also pledged to implement moratoria on the construction of large datacenters.

Anti-datacenter sentiment has grown in the last few months has become a bipartisan issue. In May, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill imposing strict regulations on large-scale datacenters. Still, last night’s election solidified the overwhelming opposition to these centers of compute that have come to serve as a stand-in for the ultra wealthy and resource extraction by the AI industry.

How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt faster

Penguin poo is making the Antarctic snow melt faster, a study shows. As temperatures rise, penguins are waddling closer to the south pole, with potential for this previously unrecognised phenomenon to affect a wider area.

Snow algae are tiny single-celled plants that make a home in some of the coldest places on Earth. When nutrients are scarce, the algae produces red pigments to protect itself from the sun and slow growth.

And when nutrients are abundant, it proliferates, packing its cells with green chlorophyll to boost photosynthesis and grow. Snow containing green algae absorbs significantly more solar energy than snow containing red algae, making it melt more quickly.

Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels

All countries can start to break their dependence on fossil fuels now without needing to wait for new technologies or economic changes, Brazil’s government has said ahead of a global climate summit. Brazil, the host of last year’s UN climate conference, set out the world’s first global “roadmap” for phasing out fossil fuels on Tuesday, showing that countries could boost their economies and pull people out of poverty while breaking the link with coal, oil and gas.

But Joeri Rogelj, a professor of climate science and policy at Imperial College London, said that although the Brazilian roadmaps represented a step forward, they were limited. “The roadmaps are valuable but fall short of clearly indicating the pace of change needed by including no timeline or key benchmarks,” he said. “Because of this omission, they still leave much to be imagined about what is needed to achieve the Paris agreement’s ultimate goal: limiting global warming to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C, to avoid dangerous climate harm.”

André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil’s president of the Cop30 summit, said the roadmaps were intended to help move the annual UN Cops away from their previous focus on negotiating global agreements to tackle the climate crisis, and on to implementing the targets that had already been agreed. Cop31 takes place in Antalya, Turkey, this month. “They are documents of implementation,” Corrêa do Lago told the Guardian in an interview. “There is a different group of people that negotiate and that implement. The problem we’ve had at many Cops is to think that the same people who negotiate might also need to coordinate the implementation – this is not the case.”

He said the roadmaps should be taken up by ministries of finance, transportation, energy and infrastructure to work on how they could be implemented in each country. Brazil hosted the Cop30 summit last November in the coastal city of Belém, in the Amazon rainforest, where a bitter dispute broke out over whether the final set of resolutions should include pledges on fossil fuels. As a compromise, the presidency agreed to produce two roadmaps, one on “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just orderly and equitable manner” and the other on halting and reversing deforestation.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.

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