The incoming president of the UN COP28 climate summit, Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of cop28 ,has laid out a plan to significantly boost global climate finance, aiming to finally reach the $100 billion commitment made to assist developing nations in adapting to climate change. This goal has proven elusive for his predecessors. During the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Sultan Al Jaber, who is also the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, stressed the importance of mobilizing private finance and reforming international finance institutions. He remained focused on advancing technologies to reduce emissions rather than completely phasing…
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The United States Navy reported on Thursday that Iran seized a Marshall Islands-registered oil tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman. This was the latest in a string of commercial vessel seizures or attacks in sensitive Gulf waters since 2019.Iran’s military said it had held onto a Marshall Islands-hailed oil big hauler in the Bay of Oman after it slammed into an Iranian boat, harming a few crew members, Iranian state media revealed.An army statement stated, “Two members of the boat’s crew are missing and several were injured due to the collision of the ship with the boat.”The…
The extent to which Iran has developed a substantial weapons industry based on Western technology and the manner in which Russia is utilizing that technology to attack Ukrainian cities have been revealed by new research.Struggle Combat hardware Exploration (Vehicle), a UK-based association which examines weapons’ parts, has laid out that the Shahed-136 robots offered to Russia by Iran are controlled by a motor in light of German innovation – innovation illegally obtained by Iran very nearly a long time back.Iran’s ability to imitate and fine-tune military technology that it has obtained illegally is highlighted by the finding, which was made…
Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the COP28 President-Designate, has returned from a two-day trip to China, where he met with Ding Xuexiang, the First Vice Premier of China; Vice Chairman of the NDRC, Zhao Chenxin; Minister of Environment and Ecology HE Huang Runqiu; Special Envoy for Climate Change, Xie Zhenhua; and the Director of the National Energy Administration, Dr. Zhang Jianhua. Dr. Al Jaber also met with students and spoke to them at the prestigious Tsinghua University Institute for Carbon Neutrality. He talked about China’s unique ability to improve South-South cooperation on climate action and its leadership in the development of…
According to Iranian authorities, on Wednesday, a security guard shot and killed a prominent Iranian cleric and member of a powerful government committee at a bank in the northern province of Mazandaran.The cleric, Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, is seen sitting on a chair in the bank in footage from the CCTV camera that was broadcast by Iranian news outlets. At that point, the security guard casually approaches him from behind, points his rifle at his head, and fires a shot.As the guard calmly moves to the side, 75-year-old Ayatollah Soleimani slumps in the chair with his white turban thrown to…
His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed emphasized the need to move beyond setting climate objectives and focus on achieving them in preparation for COP28. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), as the host nation of COP28, is committed to obtaining specific climate change commitments from participating countries. World leaders, including US President Joe Biden, participated in a virtual climate event, indicating a global commitment to addressing climate change collectively. The UAE ratified the Paris Agreement early and pledged to reduce emissions across all economic sectors by 2030, with a goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Financial commitments were made, including the US…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges that Nazem Ahmad, a Lebanese collector and dealer who trades in art and diamonds, was indicted on 18th April in New York along with eight other co-conspirators in a vast international scheme to evade sanctions and provide financial support to the militant group Hezbollah. Sundar Nagarajan, Ahmad’s accountant in Britain, was arrested, but authorities believe the eight other defendants are outside the United States and remain at large. Ahmad is said to be a Lebanon resident and holds dual Belgian and Lebanoni citizenship. His resources in England were frozen on Tuesday. Matthew…
Reports that a high-ranking delegation from the Palestinian terror group Hamas was in Saudi Arabia on a mission to strengthen ties with Riyadh appear to be true. The delegation was filmed.In a social media video, Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal circled Islam’s holiest site in Mecca in white terrycloth, a symbol of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. The Muslim world is right now denoting the last seven day stretch of the Ramadan sacred month.Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority, reported earlier that the Al-Quds daily reported that Hamas was in Saudi Arabia during PA President Mahmoud…
Iran has reportedly been coordinating recent Hamas rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip and from areas controlled by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, earlier this month, as well as rallying militant groups in allied nations and regions to launch attacks against Israel. The leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Iranian General Esmail Ghaani, held a series of covert meetings with militant groups in the Middle East in recent weeks, including some operating in Syria and Iraq, to discuss attacks on Israel on multiple fronts and with renewed determination, supported by Iran, according to a…
The UAE has pledged to provide a “transformational road map” to guide future climate action at Cop28 this year, following a new report’s warning that there is a lot that needs to be done to slow global warming. Release of the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called for “deep, rapid and sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors” to support efforts to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as stipulated in the 2015 Paris Agreement. It advances a critical objective to almost divide discharges throughout the following years, rather…
