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In Moutier BE ereignete sich am Montagabend ein tödlicher Verkehrsunfall. Eine 81-jährige Fussgängerin wurde auf der Solothurnstrasse von einem Auto erfasst und erlag noch vor Ort ihren Verletzungen.

Neben der A-Nati und der U17 bestreitet am Dienstag auch die U21 ein wichtiges Spiel in der EM-Qualifikation. Nach dem starken Auftritt beim 1:1 gegen den Gruppenfavoriten Frankreich muss das Team von Sascha Stauch diese Leistung in Luxemburg bestätigen.

Die Kinder von Angelina Jolie und Brad Pitt experimentieren mit ihrem Aussehen. Shiloh Jolie zeigt sich mit Lippenpiercing und blonden Haaren. Auch Bruder Knox zeigt sich mit einer neuen Haarfarbe.

Peu d'avancées sur l'État de droit, la liberté de la presse ou l'indépendance de la justice, révisionnisme historique et récente flambée de violence haineuse... Malgré tout, le Monténégro fait toujours figure de meilleur candidat des Balkans à l'intégration européenne. Les explications du rapporteur du Parlement européen, Marjan Šarec.

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Les villages de Plauru et Ceatalchioi, dans le delta du Danube, ont dû être évacués. En cause : un bateau-citerne chargé de gaz de pétrole liquéfié qui menace d'exploser après l'attaque d'un drone russe sur la rive ukrainienne.

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COP30 Belém Amazônia (DAY 03) - PCOP Daily Press Briefing. Credit: Rafa Neddermeyer/COP30 Brasil Amazônia

By Joyce Chimbi
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 17 2025 (IPS)

COP30 negotiations are midway. So far, talks about historic agreements are moving forward, backward, or stalling, depending on who you ask. The most pressing issues on the table are finances, adaptation, fossil fuel phase-outs, and climate justice.

Wide-ranging and ambitious promises across these issues are not translating smoothly into action. On the first day of COP30, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage [established at COP27 and operationalized at COP28] launched the call for funding requests for its startup phase.

From December 15, 2025, developing countries will have six months to request funding for projects and programs of between USD 5 and 20 million. The entire kitty has USD 250 million, which compares poorly to what is needed. On matters of loss and damage, developing countries needed USD 395 billion in 2025 alone.

The issue of finance is not a sticking point in itself at COP30, but has been identified as the thread that connects all other thematic areas as encapsulated in the ‘Baku to Belém Roadmap.’  When COP29 in Baku failed to deliver an ambitious climate finance package deal, this roadmap was added on at the last minute to build on the USD300 billion per year in financing agreed upon in Baku.

But this roadmap is not a singular goal to be achieved; it is about coming together to ‘scale up climate finance in the short and long term to ensure that annual climate financing climbs from USD 300 billion to at least USD 1.3 trillion a year by 2035. The roadmap is about increasing finance across all climate funds, be it for preventing, reducing or adapting to climate change.

Climate finance discussions have focused on mobilizing new funding sources, including innovative mechanisms like the proposed Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF). Brazil has defined oceans and forests as the twin priority areas for discussion at COP30.

TFFF is a Brazil-led initiative that aims to mobilize nearly USD 125 billion for tropical forest conservation. It is a radical new solution to combat deforestation.

Brazil has, however, been left ‘surprised’ the UK would not be joining Germany, Norway and other nations towards contributing to the TFFF funds, despite the UK having helped design the tropical forest conservation initiative.

COP30 is determined to build a bridge between promises and performance, words and actions, and there are multiple sticking points in the development of this bridge. In other words, it’s a ‘COP of implementation.’

Unlike the emotive issues of fossil fuel phase-outs and finances that defined recent COPs, COP30 seems to be where the rubber meets the road. After all is said and done, with the agreements to move away from fossil fuels, the Loss and Damage Fund, and the calls for climate adaptation financing, the technical details of how these promises become actions are the sticking point.

For fossil fuels, those whose economies are not dependent on oil, gas, or coal want an immediate transition. Those that depend on fossil fuels are asking for time to find a pathway that helps the transition as they seek alternatives to cushion their economies. This is one of the most contentious climate mitigation issues.

But still all is not lost; there seems to be notable movement in this direction, in 2024 alone, more than USD 2.2 trillion was put into renewable energy—which is more than the GDP of over 180 countries.

Amidst fragile and fragmented geopolitics, COP30 is multilateralism under test. Leaders of China, the US, Russia and India are absent. Some say this is symbolic and could derail climate talks, but many observers say taking this as a sign that political support for international climate initiatives is waning is misleading.

Some observers from the natural-resource-rich African continent say the developing world simply needs to start conducting the climate business differently, particularly in how they trade with the global North over their natural resources.

To be clear, what defines this COP is not necessarily finance, adaptation, fossil fuels or even climate justice; for many, this is a COP implementation. The ongoing negotiations face challenges in translating ambitious promises into action.

Brazil has already launched the COP30 Circle of Finance Ministers—a key initiative under the COP30 presidency to support the development of the Baku to Belém roadmap. This circle will be a platform for regular consultations throughout 2025.

Another first in the history of COPs is that the Asset Owners Summit is included in the official COP agenda. Asset owners representing approximately USD 10 trillion met in Belém in the first week of the COP to work with climate scientists, multilateral development banks, and governments to meet the climate’s financial needs.

A major point of discussion is how to shift from loans to other forms of finance, with a focus on increasing funding for adaptation and ensuring transparency. Climate finance loans remain an unresolved issue.

For developing nations, developed nations whose industrial revolution is responsible for altering the climate system have a moral obligation to climate finance on terms and conditions that take into account that developing nations are the victims. Developed nations, on the other hand, see climate finance loans as a business opportunity—for every five dollars received in climate finance loans, they repay seven dollars.

Activism has been a defining issue at COP30, as has been the increased participation and visibility of indigenous people. It is a step in the right direction when 15 national governments, including Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, the United Kingdom and Germany, and one sub-national government have formally announced their support for the Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment, a landmark global agreement to secure and strengthen the land tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities on 160 million hectares in tropical forest countries.

As to how COP30 pans out, the next few days will be critical as the UN Climate Summit nears its conclusion.

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COP30 is determined to build a bridge between promises and performance, words and actions, and there are multiple sticking points in the development of this bridge. In other words, it’s a 'COP of implementation.'

Brazilian Indigenous leader and environmentalist Cacique Raoni Metuktire (center) during the closing ceremony of the Peoples’ Summit in Belem on November 16, 2025. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS

By Tanka Dhakal
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 17 2025 (IPS)

Brazilian Indigenous leader and environmentalist Cacique Raoni Metuktire appealed for support for Indigenous peoples and their land. From the podium of the Peoples’ Summit, Cacique Raoni warned negotiators at the UN climate conference in Belém that without recognizing Indigenous peoples’ land rights, there will be no climate justice.

“It is getting warmer and warmer. And a big change is going on with the earth. Air is harder to breathe; this is only the beginning,” he said on Sunday while addressing representatives of the global climate justice movement at the Peoples’ Summit. “If we don’t act now, there will be very big consequences for everyone.”

Indigenous people and civil activists from around the world took part in the Peoples’ Summit. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS

While Belém city is hosting world leaders, government officials, scientists, policymakers, activists, and more than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists to decide the future course of global climate action, the Peoples’ Summit gathered frontline voices.

About nine kilometers from the COP30 venue, at the grounds of the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA-Federal University of Pará), activists engaged in diverse dialogue for five days and issued the “Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30” in the presence of Indigenous leaders like Raoni, which was handed over to the COP presidency.

The Declaration states that the capitalist mode of production is the main cause of the growing climate crisis. It claims that today’s environmental problems are “a consequence of the relations of production, circulation, and disposal of goods, under the logic and domination of financial capital and large capitalist corporations.” It demands the participation and leadership of people in constructing climate solutions, recognizing ancestral knowledge.

 

Artists performing indigenous folklore during the closing event of the Peoples’ summit. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS

Sebastián Ordoñez Muñoz, associated with War on Want, a UK-based organization and part of the political commission of the Peoples’ Summit, said the political declaration constructed through the summit process reflects peoples’ demands and proposals. “It has our solutions, people’s solutions,” he said. He explained that crafting the declaration was a convergence of diverse voices, uniting around clarity on what needs to happen to address the climate crisis.

“It is an expression of the autonomy of people’s movements coming together, converging to develop clear proposals that are based on the real solutions happening on the ground-in the territories, in the forests, in the seas, in the rivers, and so on,” he added. “It’s important to hand it over because we need to make sure that our voices are represented there [at COP]. Any space that we have inside the COP has always been through struggle.”

As a space for community members to come together and deliver the public’s point of view, Peoples’ Summits have been organized as parallel conferences of the COP. It did not take place during the last three COPs. But in Brazil, civil society is actively making its case.

The Peoples’ Summit attracted a large number of Indigenous leaders and community members, whereas at COP their access is limited. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS

“We need to continue making our voices heard there, but also not to beg-to state that we have the solutions and that we must be listened to, because none of these answers, none of these solutions are possible without the communities themselves,” Ordoñez Muñoz told IPS News from the Peoples’ Summit ground. “I think it’s a statement and a road map. Where do we go from here?”

Unlike COP30, the Peoples’ Summit attracted diverse groups of community members and civil society leaders. The COP venue follows the process of negotiations, while the summit emphasizes collaboration to find solutions and celebrate unity. It blends discussion with Indigenous folklore and music to bring stories of community.

“If you go into the COP summit, it’s so stale. It’s so sterile. It’s so monotonous. So homogeneous. So corporate,” Ordoñez Muñoz said. “Over here, what we have is the complete opposite. We have such diversity-differences in voice, vocabulary, language, and struggles.”

He added that the COP process is moving in one direction, unjust in nature, and reproducing many of the dynamics that led to the crisis in the first place.

“Over here, we’re all moving together. We have unity.”

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This is a COP of implementation. I do not want to see more texts that pile up on promises. But what we need is to detail what has already been promised. I want much more emphasis on adaptation because we have been too occupied with mitigation. —Carlos Lopes, Special Envoy for Africa, COP30 Presidency

As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see more of us at the negotiating table. Because you cannot be deciding about our life, about where we live, at the national level or even at the global level. There should be inclusion of all voices at the ground level. —Immaculata Casimero, a leader of the Wapichan Women’s Movement

With 80 percent of climate finance going to developed nations and just USD 5.5 billion, or 0.8 percent of climate finance, going to small-scale farmers and micro or small agri-food enterprises globally, rice farmer Mohd Yaseen Khan fears erratic weather will ruin him.

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D'après les experts consultés par la BBC, même les personnes qui se brossent les dents le plus souvent peuvent commettre des erreurs.

Ils sont issus du grand banditisme, des milieux de hooligans ou des sociétés de sécurité privées. Parmi les « Ćaci », des hommes au passé judiciaire chargé assurent la « protection » du régime Vučić et intimident les manifestants d'opposition. Une enquête du média d'investigation KRIK.

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L'armée vénézuélienne commandée par Nicolás Maduro pourrait-elle résister à une attaque de la plus grande puissance militaire du monde ?

Depuis l'effondrement mortel de l'auvent de la gare de Novi Sad, le 1er novembre 2024, la Serbie se soulève contre la corruption meurtrière du régime du président Vučić et pour le respect de l'État de droit. Cette exigence de justice menée par les étudiants a gagné tout le pays. Suivez les dernières informations en temps réel et en accès libre.

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Ce samedi 15 novembre, Justin Adjovi, jusqu'alors Secrétaire national à la trésorerie et au patrimoine, a annoncé son départ du parti Les Démocrates.

Lors d'un meeting à Cotonou, samedi 15 novembre 2025, Justin Adjovi, l'ancien parlementaire de la 16ᵉ circonscription électorale, a déclaré « tourner la page » du parti Les Démocrates. Il affirme vouloir désormais s'investir dans la « dynamique de développement » en cours sous le président Patrice Talon. Sans donner le nom d'un parti, il annonce qu'il rejoint la mouvance présidentielle.

Ce départ s'inscrit dans un mouvement de désengagement en cascade au sein du parti. Le 31 octobre dernier, les députés Chantal Adjovi, Joël Godonou, Léansou Do-Régo, Denise Hounmènou, Constant Nahum et Michel Sodjinou ont démissionné du groupe parlementaire des Démocrates. Le 13 novembre, les six députés démissionnaires ont été reçus au siège du Bloc Républicain (BR) par Abdoulaye Bio Tchané et Joseph Djogbénou (UP-R).

L'ancien député, Patrick Djivo, a lui aussi annoncé son retrait des LD.
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La Police républicaine a annoncé le lancement d'un concours pour recruter 715 élèves-agents au titre de l'année 2025. L'information a été rendue publique ce vendredi dans un communiqué de la Direction générale de la Police.

Selon les conditions du concours de recrutement de 715 élèves-agents de Police, les candidats doivent être de nationalité béninoise et jouir de leurs droits civiques. Ils doivent présenter une bonne moralité et être âgés de 18 à 25 ans au 31 décembre 2025. Pour les militaires démobilisés, la limite est portée à 26 ans.
La taille minimale exigée est de 1,70 m pour les hommes et 1,65 m pour les femmes. Le concours est ouvert aux titulaires d'un baccalauréat ou d'un diplôme équivalent. Aucune condamnation ou poursuite judiciaire ne doit figurer à leur dossier.

Les inscriptions seront ouvertes du 17 au 28 novembre 2025 via la plateforme dédiée. Les postulants devront fournir notamment : un acte de naissance sécurisé, un certificat de nationalité, un casier judiciaire de moins de trois mois, une copie du diplôme requis, une pièce d'identité biométrique.
Un droit de participation de 10 000 F CFA devra être réglé en ligne.

Le concours comporte : une épreuve physique : 4 000 m pour les hommes, 2 000 m pour les femmes ; une épreuve écrite : une dissertation de culture générale de trois heures.

Les centres d'examen seront annoncés ultérieurement pour chaque département. La Police invite les candidats à se rapprocher des directions départementales pour toute information complémentaire.

Ce recrutement s'inscrit dans la dynamique de renforcement des effectifs à la Police républicaine. En 2024, 1785 agents avaient déjà été recrutés.
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Tens of thousands of people's personal data has been leaked online, according to the US embassy.