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Singapore urges UN convention on AI safeguards as global risks mount
Proposal calls for common safety rules and human oversight, as research highlights security threats and potential disruption to jobs.
The world may eventually bring temperatures back below the Paris threshold, but fishers in Eastern Samar are already spending less time at sea, catching less fish and risking their health to make ends meet.
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Can the Global South align the world’s carbon markets?
Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – despite its own not launching until 2030.
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