No. 260 — Thursday, 05 November 2026 — 16 articles from 55 sources
The Daily Edition for Thursday, 05 November 2026 curates 16 analytical articles from 55 sources into today's key forces shaping the world. Forest-saving money falls short, from Brazil's COP30 roadmap to its flagship fund. Washington loses leverage, from yuan payments dodging sanctions to failed containment. Pressure builds on Israel's next government, from Trump's Washington to the Knesset.
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Brazil wants the world to end tropical deforestation by 2030, but its roadmap is voluntary and the money behind it falls far short. Today opens there, with Brazil's COP30 roadmap and a check on its Tropical Forest Forever Facility, which is billions short of its $125bn target. From there we turn to American power, as China's yuan trade with Russia and Iran weakens US sanctions without dethroning the dollar, and Thomas Graham argues for "competitive co-existence" over containment. We close on Israel, where Trump's midterm loss and his pledge to end aid meet a proportional voting system that rewards division. Plus briefs on why scarce power transformers are slowing US grid plans and how a failed robot rescue left NASA's Swift telescope to burn up.
Carbon Brief unpacks Brazil's COP30 deforestation roadmap, backed by 93 countries, which prices the job at $300bn a year by 2030. Current finance covers under a third of that, and nearly 90% of it is domestic public money. Eco-Business checks on the flagship fund one year in and finds the Tropi
The Diplomat tracks China's yuan trade with Russia and Iran, both targets of tightened US sanctions. It then tests that trade against a hard number: offshore yuan deposits were below 0.5 percent of onshore deposits as of mid-2026. Engelsberg Ideas zooms out to grand strategy, where Thomas Graha
The Atlantic Council weighs Trump's midterm defeat, which he tied to his Iran war, against his Election Day pledge to end military aid to Israel. Engelsberg Ideas looks inward instead, tracing Israel's proportional system from Ben-Gurion's lost bid for British-style constituencies to
Eco-Business · Research · Global — Brazil's Tropical Forest Forever Facility pays countries $4 a year per hectare of standing forest and docks $400 for each hectare cut. One year in, Eco-Business and Dialogue Earth find it billions sho
Carbon Brief · Research · Global — At COP30 in Belém, Brazil pushed a "deforestation roadmap" to meet the global goal of ending forest loss by 2030. With the Brazil-led roadmap left out of the final deal, its reach depends on whether f
The Diplomat · Newspaper · Asia — Daily payments through China's CIPS system rose from 339 billion yuan in January 2022 to 828 billion yuan in June 2026, The Diplomat reports. Russia and Iran lean on it to dodge U.S. sanctions. Yet of
Engelsberg Ideas · Magazine · Sweden — America's grand strategy since 1945 rested on two options: contain rivals or transform them. Thomas Graham, a former Bush adviser, argues in Engelsberg Ideas that China and Russia resisted both. In a
Atlantic Council · Think Tank · US — This US midterm mattered unusually for the Middle East. Democrats flipped Republican "safe" seats, but the Atlantic Council notes US forces are already deployed near Iran, and a new Congress has limit
Engelsberg Ideas · Magazine · Sweden — Israel's house is divided by design: Ben-Gurion wanted British-style constituencies but got proportional representation. Engelsberg Ideas traces that choice to the 27 October vote, the first since Ham
How a French philosopher’s warnings about speed and power describe today’s AI race — The Conversation · Academic · US
New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts — Quanta Magazine · Magazine · Global
Preparedness for the AI Era Requires a Reserve of Critical Workers — RAND Corporation · Think Tank · US
Short Supplies of Large Power Transformers Stymie Changes to US Electricity Grid — Naked Capitalism · Industry · US
Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened? — Guardian Long Read · Magazine · US
When Foreign Aid Succeeds, Why Doesn't It End? — AIER · Research · US
NASA’s Swift telescope has burned up, months after a robot sent to save it failed – here’s why it’s so hard to boost a satellite — The Conversation · Academic · US
How space weather powers auroras in the sky and threatens power grids on the ground — The Conversation · Academic · US
The China-Israel-US Triangle, Then and Now — The Diplomat · Newspaper · Asia
Nigeria's petrol subsidy was also an electricity policy — Africa Is a Country · Blog · Africa