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Millions of refugees, already displaced by political persecution and violent conflict, now face yet another threat to survival: the climate crisis.

While much of the country was occupied last week with holiday travel and time with family, a little-known government agency approved a $90 million guarantee for ING Capital to finance a liquified natural gas export facility in Texas. All told this year, that agency—the U.S. Export-Import Bank—has approved nearly $1 billion in fossil fuel lending, including $100 million for expanding an oil refinery in Indonesia and $400 million of insurance for revolving credit facilities to help commodity tradi

KATHMANDU, Dec 27: The Government of Nepal has formed an international negotiation team for handling various multilateral negotiations including climate talks.

The U.S. and China have delivered big wins in climate diplomacy through the unique relationship of their chief climate envoys, but the two countries are bracing for change as the Chinese envoy retires and the U.S. readies for an election. In an interview with Reuters, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry was vague about his plans for the future. The COP28 summit's final deal also marked the last official action by Kerry's longtime ally - China's ailing 75-year-old climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, who had guided China's international climate talks for 16 years.

In the week since the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties (COP28) climate talks wrapped up, media coverage of the outcome has been largely positive. That coverage has focused on the statement produced at the end of the conference, which”calls on” participating nations to “contribute” to the “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems.” This marks the first time since the inaugural COP of 1995 that a final text actually mentions the words “fossil fuels.” Not even the 2015 Paris Ag