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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?
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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?

Juan Cole

Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country

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Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

11/20/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

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The Case for Recognising Palestine

The Case for Recognising Palestine

By Gareth Evans, Australian National University | – Since a United Nations General Assembly Resolution vote in November 2012, Palestine has had the status of […]

The Conversation

Iran
Iran, U.S. Renew Engagement To Avoid 'Big Crisis'

Iran, U.S. Renew Engagement To Avoid ‘Big Crisis’

By Golnaz Esfandiari     I’m RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here’s what I’ve been following during the past week and what I’m watching for in […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Climate Crisis
Breaching 1.5°C /  2.7° F. Climate limit would jeopardise Security, says new German govt Strategy

Breaching 1.5°C / 2.7° F. Climate limit would jeopardise Security, says new German govt Strategy

By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Exceeding the 1.5°C / 2.7° F. temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would […]

Julian Wettengel

China
Xi Jinping backs Palestine entry into Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as Beijing offers to Mediate Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Xi Jinping backs Palestine entry into Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as Beijing offers to Mediate Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas accomplished a great deal on his 4-day visit to Beijing, including a Chinese agreement to try […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
To Avert Climate Catastrophe, US and Europe must stop Competing and Start Cooperating

To Avert Climate Catastrophe, US and Europe must stop Competing and Start Cooperating

Originally published in European Alternatives. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – From a foreign policy perspective, transatlantic relations appear to have reached new heights. […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Acidification of Oceans
Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 Emissions; Phytoplankton are Central to its Climate Impacts

Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 Emissions; Phytoplankton are Central to its Climate Impacts

By Tyler Rohr, University of Tasmania; Anthony Richardson, The University of Queensland; and Elizabeth Shadwick, CSIRO | – The ocean holds 60 times more carbon […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
9/11, Climate Change Style: How burning Fossil Fuels is making our own Planet Alien to Us

9/11, Climate Change Style: How burning Fossil Fuels is making our own Planet Alien to Us

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to […]

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump
Iran confirms it is Talking with the Biden Administration about Nuclear Enrichment, Prisoners and Regional Relations

Iran confirms it is Talking with the Biden Administration about Nuclear Enrichment, Prisoners and Regional Relations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is coming out that the US and Iran have been talking privately in Oman about a range of bilateral […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Governments at Bonn Climate Talks Should Press United Arab Emirates on Rights

Governments at Bonn Climate Talks Should Press United Arab Emirates on Rights

Joe Stork Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division (Human Rights Watch ) – Ahmed Mansoor, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) best-known human rights […]

Human Rights Watch

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