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Afghanistan excluded from COP28 as climate impacts hit home The logo of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28is pictured at Expo City in Dubai on December 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Humanitarian concerns have been raised over Afghanistan being left out of United Nations climate negotiations for a third year in a row, as the country grapples with worsening drought and floods. Dozens of people were killed in Afghanistan, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, after heavy rains triggered flash floods that swept across drought-stricken land earlier this year. But the country is absent from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, having been left out of such U.N. talks since the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #COP_28

Afghanistan excluded from COP28 as climate impacts hit home The logo of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28is pictured at Expo City in Dubai on December 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Humanitarian concerns have been raised over Afghanistan being left out of United Nations climate negotiations for a third year in a row, as the country grapples with worsening drought and floods. Dozens of people were killed in Afghanistan, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, after heavy rains triggered flash floods that swept across drought-stricken land earlier this year. But the country is absent from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, having been left out of such U.N. talks since the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #COP_28

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Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMF Traditionally unpopular carbon taxes could be achieved with regulatory compliance, IMF head tells Cop Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate the vast amounts of cash needed to tackle the climate crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said. Governments have been put off explicitly pricing carbon by the potential unpopularity of new carbon taxes, which have become favourite targets of anti-climate politicians and parties around the world, from the US and Australia to Europe and the UK. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #Cop_28

Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMF Traditionally unpopular carbon taxes could be achieved with regulatory compliance, IMF head tells Cop Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate the vast amounts of cash needed to tackle the climate crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said. Governments have been put off explicitly pricing carbon by the potential unpopularity of new carbon taxes, which have become favourite targets of anti-climate politicians and parties around the world, from the US and Australia to Europe and the UK. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #Cop_28