Battle lines drawn on climate finance ahead of COP29
Countries at the UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan are due to replace a goal initially agreed in 2009. Back then, developed nations pledged to provide $100bn annually in climate financing for ...
Simeon Brown announces Lindsay McKenzie will be Wellington City Council’s Crown observer
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced the person tasked with being Wellington City Council’s Crown observer.
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Britain hugs oil giant BP while preaching climate action
Yet BP’s existing oil and gas reserves in Azerbaijan equate to 2 billion barrels, according to Global Witness estimates, ...
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Olaf Scholz willing to hold confidence vote this year after ruling coalition collapse
The so-called 'Traffic Light Coalition' – made up of Scholz’s Social Democrats, the liberal FDP and the Greens – collapsed on 6 November after Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner. "He ...
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Germany's Scholz says ready to hold confidence vote this year
Germany's embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he would be ready to ask for a confidence vote this year to pave the ...
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Fact check: Does lifting debt brake defy an oath of office?
The German government imploded over the controversial debt brake. Former Finance Minister Christian Lindner said the ...
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Legislation tabled after convening of Parliament
Two pieces of legislation were tabled in the House of Assembly after the convening of Parliament today. The Digital Asset ...
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German chancellor’s last remaining coalition ally makes his move before expected early election
German Eonomy Minister Robert Habeck says he hopes to become his Green Party’s chancellor in the coming election. The ...
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Alberta government appoints interim CEO at embattled AIMCo after removing its board
Ray Gilmour was appointed by the government of Alberta, Canada, as the interim CEO of the C$168.9 billion ($121 billion) ...
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Yechiel Leiter, U.S.-born former Netanyahu aide, to be Israel’s next ambassador to Washington
Leiter’s son Moshe was killed in Gaza last year; Netanyahu told the family’s story in his speech to a joint session of ...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu names Yechiel Leiter ambassador to the United States
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Yechiel Leiter will become the country's new ambassador to the ...
Bahrain Finance Minister: ‘Rising tide will lift all economies in the GCC’
Like other Gulf Cooperation Council nations, Bahrain is making efforts to diversify its economy, developing its finance and ...