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      Developing world needs private finance for green transition, says Cop president

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    UN’s top climate official warns ‘no country is immune’ from climate disaster as conference begins in Azerbaijan

    Businesses in the private sector must stump up cash for the developing world to invest in a low-carbon economy or face the consequences of climate breakdown, the president of the UN climate summit has said.

    Mukhtar Babayev, the environment minister of Azerbaijan, the host of this year’s climate conference, wrote in Monday’s Guardian: “The onus cannot fall entirely on government purses. Unleashing private finance for developing countries’ transition has long been an ambition of climate talks.

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      Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024 • 1 minute

    Ipswich’s young English duo catch the eye, Liverpool march on and the brilliance of Brighton’s Carlos Baleba

    It took them an hour of huffing and puffing, but Arsenal did something at Stamford Bridge they hadn’t managed since September – they scored an away goal in the Premier League. After toothless performances at Newcastle and Inter in the past week – and last month at Bournemouth – Gabriel Martinelli’s cute finish was itself a moment of relief, but Mikel Arteta was frustrated that his team didn’t find a winner. Their expected goals figure was lower than Chelsea’s (1.27 to 1.69) but that does not account for Leandro Trossard’s costly miskick at the death nor Kai Havertz’s would-be opener, which was just offside. The Gunners will almost always control games, especially now Martin Ødegaard is fit and firing again, but that age-old itch has not been scratched. They are not ruthless enough and they still lack a penalty box killer. Dominic Booth

    Match report: Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal

    Match report: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa

    Match report: Brighton 2-1 Manchester City

    Match report: Manchester United 3-0 Leicester

    Match report: Nottingham Forest 1-3 Newcastle

    Match report: Tottenham 1-2 Ipswich

    Match report: Brentford 3-2 Bournemouth

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      Is it true that … starting Botox in your 20s will stop you getting wrinkles?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    A professor in plastic surgery cuts to the truth about one of the world’s most popular anti-ageing treatments

    Yes, says Dr Afshin Mosahebi, a professor in plastic surgery at University College London: injecting botulinum toxin (commonly known as Botox) into areas of the face before fine lines start forming can slow their development – but that doesn’t mean you should.

    “Facial wrinkles happen for two reasons,” he says. One is that when our muscles move, the skin over them is repeatedly scrunched and – in the same way that constantly scrunching up a piece of fabric will ultimately leave a crease – it begins to etch lines into the skin. The other reason is the thinning of the dermis layer of the skin, which happens “as we get older, and particularly as we are exposed to the sun”, Mosahebi says. The thinner it is, the more susceptible it is to wrinkles.

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      Angry teammates and redemption: NFL week 10 showed kickers matter

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    It was a wild Sunday for kickers as their errors and heroics helped decide several games. Don’t let anyone tell you the position is dull

    The late, great coach Buddy Ryan once quipped , “Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.” If Ryan were alive today, he might think again. Kickers dominated Week 10 with a collection of horrors and heroics. A few examples of how they made their presence felt:

    • Denver’s Wil Lutz entered Sunday with a 95% success rate on field goals this season. So, when Bo Nix led the Broncos down the field and set Lutz up for a potential game-winning, Kansas City Chiefs-beating 35-yarder as time expired, the odds were in his favor. BLOCK. The Chiefs won 16-14 and remain undefeated.

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      At Cop29, we must treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as Covid – history shows it can be done | Mukhtar Babayev

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    This emergency will cost trillions of dollars, and is beyond the reach of developing nations. Private investors have to step up

    • Mukhtar Babayev is president of the Cop29 UN climate change conference

    To avert climate catastrophe, the world needs more climate finance. At Cop29 , the UN climate summit in Baku that begins today, agreeing a new climate finance goal is the top priority of Azerbaijan’s Cop presidency.

    Developing countries require assistance to tackle their emissions and build resilience against growing climate threats. The $100bn annual target , set in 2009, was intended to be fulfilled by 2020. It is now outdated and falls far short of what is needed for countries at the sharp end of the climate crisis.

    Mukhtar Babayev is president of the Cop29 UN climate change conference

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      Mike Tyson v Jake Paul is the apex event of content masquerading as sport | Sean Ingle

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024 • 1 minute

    Like most boxing fans I hate the idea of this deluded nonsense but there certainly seems to be a market for it

    Mark Borkowski is the public relations maestro who has worked with everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Diego Maradona to Jim Rose, an American exhibitionist who used to hang weights from his penis. Borkowski also helped Ian Botham recreate Hannibal’s walk across the Alps with elephants, and, for his sins, was the mastermind behind Cliff Richard’s Saviour’s Day reaching Christmas No 1, despite minimal radio play. So who better to talk about the biggest sporting stunt of the year, Mike Tyson’s fight against Jake Paul, which will be streamed into 300m homes via Netflix this weekend?

    Instinctively, as I told Borkowksi, I hate the idea. Most boxing fans do. It sells a myth that wasn’t even close to being a reality in 2004, let alone 2024: namely that Tyson is one of the most ferocious warriors alive, not a 58-year-old who lost 26lb in May after an ulcer flare-up that left him throwing up blood and defecating tar. It risks Tyson’s boxing reputation and his health. And, Netflix’s lavish promotion aside, it feels more like a sham or a circus than a genuine sporting event.

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      ‘In China, builders don’t look at drawings’: the architect challenging his country’s rampant urban obsession

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024 • 1 minute

    China is moving mountains and flattening neighbourhoods. But Dong Gong is sparking a revolution – by working slowly with what’s already there. As a book of his great projects appears, he shares his philosophy

    Artificial boulders fill the studio of Vector architects in Beijing, like the result of a dramatic landslide, their craggy polystyrene surfaces rendered with chalky grey plaster. One rock has a striking house sprouting from its summit, a group of intersecting cubic volumes crowned with a curving barrel-vaulted roof . Another has a cluster of industrial looking buildings nestled at its base, connected by an intricate colonnade. A third features a series of momentous terraces and rectangular pits carved into a gulley, with the air of an ancient burial site.

    These are the enigmatic visions of Dong Gong, an architect who has risen to prominence in China as a conjuror of mesmerising spaces, crafting libraries, schools and museums that feel grown out of, or hewn into, their sites, built with extraordinary attention to detail. His seashore library in Aranya feels like a miniature jewel-like version of Le Corbusier’s La Tourette monastery , marooned on the beach, where daylight pierces through angled shafts and plays across the sculpted concrete walls.

    His courtyard elementary school in Shenzhen is a protected oasis, its classrooms and running track wrapping a grove of mature banyan trees in the middle of the bustling high-rise metropolis, a world away from the usual state-mandated educational barracks. While Chinese cities continue to build at relentless speed, moving mountains and razing neighbourhoods overnight, Dong’s approach is to slow down, and draw on the value of what is already there.

    China’s current economic slowdown has actually been helpful,” he says, sitting in his office in Beijing, where a framed drawing of La Tourette leans against the wall. “It means we can slow down too, and rediscover a kind of thoughtfulness.” While big commercial offices that worked for the country’s major real estate developers are struggling, the likes of Vector architects see the current moment as a chance to take stock, recalibrate, and encourage their clients to approach things more carefully. Where demolition was once the default, the economic lull has given more currency to the option of retaining and reusing existing structures – a boon for both heritage and the environment.

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      Bitcoin breaks $81,000 for first time on Trump trades; UK government sells £1bn of NatWest shares – business live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Cryptocurrency more than doubles since January on hopes of lighter regulation; latest share sale takes UK Treasury’s holding in NatWest to 11.4%

    Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.

    Bitcoin has soared to a new record high of more than $81,000, following Donald Trump’ s victory in the US presidential election last week and the election of some pro-crypto candidates to Congress.

    Bitcoin’s Trump-pump is alive and well... with Republicans on the cusp of taking the house to confirm a red wave in Congress, it seems the crypto crowd are betting on digital-currency deregulation.

    8.10am GMT: ECB policymaker Elizabeth McCaul speech

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      Weather tracker: Philippines braced for landslides as fourth cyclone in three weeks hits

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Meanwhile, unseasonable heat will continue across parts of Australia this week

    The northern Philippines is experiencing its fourth tropical cyclone in three weeks. Typhoon Toraji, also known as Nika, is passing westwards over the island of Luzon, with winds equivalent to a category 1 hurricane. Toraji follows cyclones Trami , Kong-rey, and Yinxing, which combined left 159 people dead and more than 700,000 displaced. The ongoing recovery efforts are being frustrated by the repeated onslaughts of dangerous weather.

    The Philippines is no stranger to cyclones, with about 20 hitting the nation each year, but it is unusual for the same region to experience so many in such a short space of time. The main concern for authorities is the sheer amount of rainfall in recent weeks, with torrential rain from Toraji falling on to soils that are saturated and waterways that are already full. About 2,500 villages have been evacuated, mainly due to the extreme risk of landslides, while dams are carrying out controlled releases of water in an effort to counteract flood risks.

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