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Stabenow would delay farm bill to 2025 to prevent SNAP and climate cuts - Food & Environment Reporting Network

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Stabenow would delay farm bill to 2025 to prevent SNAP and climate cuts | Food and Environment Reporting Network

Senate Agriculture chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said she would delay the new farm bill, already five months overdue, to 2025 rather than accept cuts — sought by Republicans— in SNAP and climate funds. “Tell you what: If we get to the end of the year [and] instead of a farm bill, I have protected nutrition for…
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State of Play

Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates. 

Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.

The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21). 

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