1. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni announced a
five-year strategic action plan outlining their vision for collaboration in a
range of key sectors, including defence, trade, energy and space.
2. Lamenting
the fact that some developed countries were taking "unilateral
measures", making it more difficult for developing countries to take
climate actions, India said as far as climate change was concerned there should
not be any barriers to the flow of finance and technology.
3. Ukraine's
Military used long-range American-made missiles - known as the Army Tactical
Missile System (ATACMS) -on Tuesday to strike into Russia for the first
time.
4. Protectionism is a threat to the collaboration required between the developed and developing world in addressing climate issues. Innovative protectionist ideas, such as the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (EU-CBAM), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, and the EU Deforestation Regulation, have led to concerns in developing nations.