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On 29 November, Ireland will hold its first general election since before the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the interactive grid below, Carbon Brief tracks the climate commitments made by the six most popular parties in a 25 November opinion poll, based on their latest manifestos.

A recent interview with on of the few Adults in the "Climate Debate", Professor Kevin Anderson.

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• Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed allocating 1% of the military’s annual spending, or around $24 billion, to support six million tree planters in the reforestation of around 15 million hectares (37 million acres).
• If carried out successfully, it would be the largest reforestation effort in the country’s history, equivalent to the surface area of all of Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador combined.
• Military participation in reforestation programs has struggled in other parts of the region, critics noted, while pointing out that Mexico’s congress may cut funding for conservation in other government agencies.

Representatives of ExxonMobil, Dow, BASF and Sabic are among the fossil fuel firms doing lobby at the plastics negotiations in South Korea

A “record” number of fossil fuel lobbyists have registered to take part in the last scheduled round of UN talks to agree a new global pact to tackle plastic pollution, according to the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).

Taken together, fossil fuel and chemical sector lobbyists would form the largest single delegation at the meeting in Busan,

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For context, they've been massively investing in increased fossil fuels output