🇺🇸📊🗳❗️ — Polymarket seems to treat such, Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, as a matter settled

➡️ 96% of chances in a sudden change after the news from New York Times!

🇨🇷🎖🇸🇻 — The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, received the National Order of Juan Mora Fernández, the highest honor Costa Rica grants to a foreign figure. The award was presented by his Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves

"As recognition of the success of the security policies implemented in El Salvador and the positive impact they have on other countries in the region, Costa Rica awards the National Order of Juan Mora Fernández, in the Grand Cross Gold Plaque grade."

🇸🇻🇨🇷💥 — URGENT: Presidents Nayib Bukele and Rodrigo Chaves announced the "League of Nations," an initiative by El Salvador and Costa Rica aimed at ensuring security and prosperity for both countries. The initiative also welcomes other nations around the world that share the same vision.

🇨🇴🔥⚠️ — BREAKING: Moment of the eruption of the San José de Mulatos volcano, located in the Antioquia department of Colombia.

🇦🇷🏴💸— Javier Milei's warning at Meta Day on the issue of cryptocurrencies worldwide:

"States are scamming us with central banks; don't let them get their hands on cryptocurrencies!"

🇦🇷🏴❌👎— Javier Milei criticizes activist journalists and propagandists during the Meta Day event:

"Thanks to technology, we've made great strides. Thanks to the internet, the paid-off microphones lost their monopoly on truth. Besides, they say the organ that hurts the most is the wallet, and for journalists, it’s all about the funding."

🇦🇷📱 — #Archive
Speech by President Javier Milei at Meta Day Argentina in Buenos Aires

🇪🇺 EU all but guaranteed to miss global deadline for climate targets

Europeans want other countries to promise ambitious action but are behind on their own plans.

By Feb. 10, governments are meant to send fresh plans for how they plan to tackle climate change to the United Nations. These documents, the backbone of the Paris Agreement, will set out each country’s efforts to cut planet-warming emissions by 2035.

The bloc currently plans to reduce net emissions by 55 percent by 2030 on a path to zero in 2050. Earlier this year, the Commission also suggested a 90 percent target for 2040. The idea is that the EU will draw a line between its 2030 and 2040 targets to get its 2035 goal.

For the 2040 target to become law, the Commission must present a formal proposal, which then goes to both the European Parliament and governments represented in the Council for months of negotiations. The proposal is expected in the first quarter of 2025; the 2030 target, the foundation of the EU’s current NDC, took a year to agree.

In theory, nothing is stopping the bloc’s leaders from preempting that whole process with a political declaration backing a certain target. But global warming is now taking a backseat to economic woes and the war in Ukraine. Governments seem not to be in a hurry to start a discussion on new climate targets. While a handful of EU countries, Denmark among them, have endorsed a 90 percent target for 2040, others, including Poland, aren’t yet ready to do so.

A discussion over whether to even mention the Commission’s 90 percent recommendation in the EU’s COP29 negotiating mandate pushed ministerial discussions late into the night in October, with the figure ultimately scrapped from the document.

The Polish official suggested that a 2040 target wasn’t necessary to agree on a 2035 plan. “We could just draw a straight line from our 2030 target to the 2050 target.”

But that would lead to a less ambitious 2035 figure than if the target is derived from a 90 percent reduction goal in 2040 — roughly 66 percent versus 72 percent, by POLITICO’s back-of-the-envelope calculation. Predictably, more climate-forward EU countries don’t like that approach.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-all-but-guaranteed-to-miss-global-deadline-for-climate-targets/

🇪🇺 The European Union stands firm on its decision to ban the sale of combustion engines by 2035 despite protests from various EU member states and carmakers.

The EU has passed a law to ban sales of new CO2-emitting cars from 2035, effectively outlawing new diesel and petrol engines. Tighter CO2 limits for carmakers' fleets also take effect next year.

Italy and the Czech Republic have said that slumping electric car sales mean carmakers cannot meet these targets, and asked Brussels to urgently review them.

Asked by EU lawmakers about his plans for the auto sector, climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the climate rules provided a predictable investment environment.

The European Commission has already agreed to tweak its 2035 phase-out date to allow cars running on e-fuels to be sold after the deadline, at Germany's request.

Automakers have warned they cannot meet next year's EU car CO2 limits and are bracing for potentially billions of euros in fines.

Hoekstra said those fears may be overstated, given the relatively low fines carmakers faced for missing 2020 EU emissions targets. Volkswagen faced penalties exceeding 100 million euros.

📝: Not only are European car companies shutting down their factories and laying off hundreds of workers, they are also going to be fined by the EU for not selling enough EVs due to stiff competition from China.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eu-climate-chief-holds-firm-co2-deadlines-cars-2024-11-07/