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High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate chief tells Cop31

Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the UN’s climate chief, Simon Stiell, told the opening plenary of critical UN climate talks in Turkey. Stiell joined Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia, which is leading the negotiations, in promoting renewable energy and a new electrification goal as an optimistic alternative to a planet still tied to oil, coal and gas. Continue reading...

The Guardian
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International

Nvidia scandal: when Chinese intelligence goes through “sexpionage”

The revelation of an affair between Jensen Huang, director of Nvidia, and a Chinese national suspected of working for Beijing's intelligence services had the effect of a bombshell in the United States. She also recalls that “sexpionage” is a process that Beijing has mastered and uses to influence its technological war against the United States.

France 24
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