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Amazon chief Jezz Bezos pledges the retail giant will meet its emissions targets taken under the Paris climate accord 10 years ahead of schedule. We want to use our scope and our scale to lead the way," Bezos told a news conference in the US capital, announcing the firm would acquire 100,000 electric delivery vans to help cut its carbon fooptprint. The world's richest man, Bezos said Amazon would be the first signatory to the 2015 Paris deal to commit to meet its targets, a decade early, with other companies to follow suit. SOUNDBITE
Around a hundred activists protest against the G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment by blocking the highway and letting off smoke flares in Turin for about 30 minutes. The meeting begins Sunday evening. IMAGES
Hundreds of tractors block streets around the EU's headquarters in Brussels as ministers met to seek ways to streamline farming rules and red tape that have fuelled protests around the bloc. IMAGES
The OPEC oil cartel says there is no "single solution" to the energy transition as pressure grows to agree a phase-out of fossil fuels at the COP28 climate talks. "There is no single solution or path to achieve a sustainable energy future," said a speech by OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais to the Dubai summit read on his behalf by the head of the cartel's research division, Ayed al-Qahtani. SOUNDBITE
The COP28 climate conference should aim for a complete "phaseout" of fossil fuels, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP on Wednesday, warning of "total disaster" on humanity's current trajectory. SOUNDBITE
Kosovo and Serbia's leaders visit Brussels for talks with their European counterparts on calming tensions, with Aleksandar Vucic, president of Serbia, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti arriving for a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The talks come just days after an European Union envoy, as well as diplomats from the United States, France, Germany and Italy visited both Belgrade and Pristina, for top-level talks over the issue. IMAGES
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