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            <title><![CDATA[What to watch in the US Supreme Court's big climate case]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a case that could determine the fate of state-court lawsuits nationwide seeking climate damages from oil giants]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Middle-schoolers are seeking out AI friends instead of real human ones]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Young adolescents who turn to chatbots for companionship feel more lonely, new study says]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Blackmail’: Europe fumes against White House demand for more diesel]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[White House strong-arming led to G7 countries announcing they would release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil from their strategic reserves]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worse than coal? Debate intensifies over carbon impact of US gas imported to Europe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[With 60% of Europe's liquefied natural gas imports now coming from the United States, the carbon footprint of this energy source remains fiercely contested
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[G-7 agrees to release oil reserves to reduce fuel prices after U.S. pressure]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The agreement involves the release of 100 million barrels of diesel and oil over four months]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How clean cooking can restore trust in climate action]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[IoT cookstoves are among the unexpected inventions restoring trust in climate finance, protecting forests, and empowering communities]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabio Parigi]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South China Sea: The sea where trade cannot afford a geopolitical accident]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In the South China Sea, uncertainty carries a price, and measuring it can finance continuity without touching sovereignty
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Singapore eyes bigger role in nuclear fusion industry]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[City-state 'closely following' emerging technology as future energy option]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[OpenAI fires researchers for allegedly sharing information with AI safety group]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The startup, in the throes of responding to rogue AI incidents, said three employees violated policies for handling sensitive company data]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More than half of Europe faced intense summer heat stress, EU monitor says]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A record 52% of Europe faced intense heat stress this summer, the EU’s climate monitor said Friday, as climate change fuelled widespread heatwaves and tens of thousands of excess deaths]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan banks uncover twice the vulnerabilities following Mythos AI release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lenders urged to bolster response to cyberattacks, including suspending services]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vanguard finds younger investors choose ESG voting at twice older rate]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Vanguard’s latest proxy voting data has revealed a sharp generational divide in how investors approach ESG and corporate governance, as participation in its Investor Choice program reached more than half a million investors in 2026]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stakeholders strongly oppose inclusion of oil and gas in Canada’s sustainable finance taxonomy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The majority of stakeholders responding to a consultation into the development of Canada’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy said that they strongly opposed a proposal to include an “abatement measures” category focused on decarbonizing activities related to fossil fuels, according to the consultation report released by investor initiative Business Future Pathways (BFP)]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Geothermal company Fervo Energy announced Thursday morning that it had started selling electricity from its Cape Station power plant to the grid on September 30, one day ahead of schedule]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palermo, first coffee grown and harvested in Italy: warmer climate is changing farming]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Rising temperatures now allow coffee to be grown in Italy. In Sicily, the Morettino family has completed its first harvest, showing how climate change is reshaping crops worldwide]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Evidence builds showing climate change could be intensifying El Niño events]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A potentially historic El Niño event is building in the Pacific Ocean and already impacting the globe. Based on most recent models, this year’s event could be the largest ever recorded]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is college getting less safe for women?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[States sue to stop Trump’s retreat on power plant emissions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The lawsuit was triggered by the EPA’s abandonment of one of the nation’s biggest climate efforts]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The state is the biggest to approve solar panels that plug into walls, giving residents a cheaper way to generate their own electricity]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK scraps climate change reporting rules for the City]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Watchdog waters down plans to force London-listed companies to disclose risks they face from global warming]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI will be an eco-killer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Our guest author believes that the use of artificial intelligence threatens to destroy the planet if nothing changes – and discusses this with readers]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Felix Ekardt]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pension funds: the largest and least visible force in impact investing]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Pension funds are the largest single source of global impact investing capital, and their scale makes them indispensable to closing the EMDE financing gap]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Gupta]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The carbon math behind rerouting supply chains toward Mexico]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nearshoring to Mexico cuts freight emissions mainly by shortening the ocean leg of the journey, not by swapping to cleaner fuels
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rare earths are the new sanctions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Magnets, minerals, transformers and battery components are becoming the new chokepoints of energy security and geopolitical leverage
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How will AI philanthropy change development aid?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[As Anthropic and its ilk join the donor class, they must avoid old pitfalls]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Revamped ESG data industry body targets interoperability]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Future of Sustainable Data Alliance publishes first major report since shake-up, with MSCI joining its rank]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Colombia moves to revoke carbon market rules issued under Former President Petro]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Colombia’s government is moving to revoke regulations governing its carbon market, reopening a policy framework adopted only weeks ago under former President Gustavo Petro, local news website La Silla Vacía reported Tuesday, citing Environment Minister Fabio Arjona]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shell to double production capacity at LNG Canada]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The energy giant’s multibillion dollar investment aims to capture rising Asian gas demand driven by demographic growth and power-hungry data centers]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China ends tax break on lithium-ion EV batteries after 11 years]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Reduced support could help trigger shakeout in crowded auto field]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tracking methane leaks to slow global warming: European regulation project weakened by France's reversal]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Although Emmanuel Macron had pledged to reduce methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, he ultimately called for the implementation of European legislation on the issue to be postponed, citing the energy crisis]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US turns waste carbon into 2.5 barrels of synthetic jet fuel per day]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The synthetic fuel can be blended with conventional jet fuel at concentrations up to 50 percent]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fossil fuel companies are using AI to find more oil and gas, not to cut emissions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new study found AI-driven fossil fuel productivity could increase emissions. Here are examples of companies already using AI to boost production]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Switzerland’s glaciers are losing an astonishing amount of ice. See the meltdown]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dry winters and a warming climate are taking a toll on centuries-old ice in the Alps, researchers say, with about 20 percent of Swiss glacial ice melting since 2021]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[World's tallest wind turbine reaches final height in Germany's former coal mining region]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A region of Germany once dominated by coal mines has achieved a remarkable pivot to clean energy]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil confident new rainforest fund will reach $10bn donor milestone]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Brazil’s environment minister João Paulo Capobianco said their new rainforest fund proposal has raised billions in record time, which he hopes will convince more investors]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The fragility of interdependence: How globalisation turned complexity into systemic risk]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Why the systems we build to solve problems eventually become risks themselves]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven W. Pearce]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How saving humanity became a competitive disadvantage]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[AI leaders openly warn that the technology they are building could end humanity. Then they keep working on it. Here is why none of them can afford to stop, and how we get out of the doom loop.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Methane will move from emissions data to financial liability]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Satellites, sensors and buyers are turning every leaked methane molecule into lost revenue, regulatory exposure and a credit risk
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are boards only seeing half the materiality picture?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A count of 70 European sustainability statements found nearly three times as many disclosed risks as opportunities, and boards are making capital decisions without ever seeing that ratio
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Kelly]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Italy draws €110 billion order book for new green bond offering]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance announced the completion of a new green bond offering, raising €8 billion to finance projects with a positive environmental impacts, in areas including renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transport

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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging markets double reach of world's carbon-pricing measures]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Countries like India, Vietnam start capping steel, cement, other heavy polluters]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Annual coal mine methane emissions are linked to tens of thousands of deaths]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Methane drives the formation of ground-level ozone, an invisible greenhouse gas that is also harmful to human health. Each year of continued coal mine methane emissions at current levels leads to around 26,400 preventable deaths over the following decades]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Africa’s most industrialised economy set to host key battery-material facility]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Morocco, Africa’s most industrialised economy, is set to host a key battery-material plant serving Europe’s growing electric-vehicle industry as part of a $3.7 billion battery supply-chain investment spanning North Africa and Europe]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Europeans are beating high gas prices by installing heat pumps]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Heat pump sales plummeted in 2024 – but now they’re on the rise again. Here’s why]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Digger’ is the year’s big climate movie. This climate reporter hated it.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tom Cruise’s latest film is a crude parable about an unrepentant oil executive]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[GRI to launch new sustainability reporting standard for food and beverage companies]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is developing a new sustainability reporting standard for the global food and beverage industry, targeting a sector exposed to climate, biodiversity, labor and public health risks across complex supply chains]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The gap between the rich and the very, very rich is getting wider]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 0.1% holds about 15% of the nation’s total wealth, with average household wealth of over $200 million each]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Top AI executives sign commitment to ‘self-police’ after meeting at White House]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump said Tuesday that top tech executives had signed a new commitment aimed at better “self-policing” their companies’ AI models, arguing that the light-touch approach represents the best way to balance safety concerns with his desire to accelerate a technology that he’s dubbed “Super Intelligence”
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump signs executive order renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The rebranding comes amid mounting concerns over the dangers posed by the rapidly developing technology]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ISO, UNDP launch first global standard to Embed SDGs in business]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[ISO and the United Nations Development Programme have launched the world’s first International Standard designed specifically to help organizations turn the Sustainable Development Goals into measurable action]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists deliver ‘starkest warning yet’ of profound changes sweeping the planet’s oceans]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The oceans are warming at an alarming pace, bringing far-reaching consequences for which the world is unprepared, according to a report by more than 100 international scientists]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A formal complaint says the European Commission is keeping data center energy and water use under wraps, breaching the public’s right to know]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who - or what - still can't vote?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nature, youth, and the economics that refuses to file half of global GDP under 'externality']]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yury Erofeev]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trade routes become investment routes]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[An internal document warned that it was too early to call the 2035 target unachievable, despite arguments from carmakers that they needed relief

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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[NYC Comptroller proposes $5 billion in new private markets climate solutions investments]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New York City Comptroller Mark Levine announced that he is recommending a strategic expansion in private markets climate solutions investments for three of the City’s public pension funds, with plans to present $5 billion in new private market investment opportunities]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Germany, Austria and Luxembourg Launch $2.5 Billion e-SAF Scheme]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Germany, Austria and Luxembourg have opened a $2.5 billion funding mechanism aimed at accelerating Europe’s market for electricity-based sustainable aviation fuel]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … I’ll spare you the rest, but the cliché Dickens line really does sum up this year’s New York Climate Week]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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