Leaders press climate talks on just transition for workers
At the U N climate summit in Katowice Poland leaders warn of dire consequences of inaction and stress a just transition for miners and workers as fossil fuels are phased out by 2050. Guterres Attenborough Schwarzenegger Rutte Duda and Thunberg urge action while France protests echo globally amid coal reliant economies and net zero goals.
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Lopez Obrador pledges daily news conferences for six year term
Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the first leftist president in decades of technocrats, opened his tenure with a news conference and vowed to hold one every working day. He signed a decree creating a truth commission on the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, and defended austerity measures while planning to cancel the Mexico City airport project in favor of expanding existing facilities.
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