Climate: COP30 marks milestone on adaptation agenda (PRIV)
(Eqram Mustaqeem, Kuala Lumpur)
COP30 and the seventh session of the meeting of Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA7) will be remembered as an important milestone on the adaptation agenda, with key decisions on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), along with the establishment of a new adaptation finance goal.

Seed Treaty: South rejects unfair amendments to treaty, SMTA (PRIV)
(Nithin Ramakrishnan and Mirna Ines Fernandez Pradel, Lima)
Developing countries from GRULAC (the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean), Africa, the Near East and Asia strongly rejected a last-minute compromise proposal from the Swiss Chair, which clearly favoured developed countries.

Sudan: Kordofan risks becoming "another El Fasher", warns Turk (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on 4 December said that he feared another wave of atrocities in Sudan amid a surge in fierce fighting across the Kordofan region.