{
  "id": 15151146,
  "title": "Pacific nations await climate billions, as fossil fuel divide looms over Cop31",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/pacific-nations-await-climate-billions-as-fossil-fuel-divide-looms",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-17T07:32:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RFI English",
    "slug": "rfi-english",
    "url": "https://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20261017-pacific-nations-await-climate-billions-as-fossil-fuel-divide-looms-over-cop31"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Ahead of next month’s United Nations Cop31 climate summit, as a strengthening El Niño drives Pacific sea temperatures towards record levels, more than $5 billion promised to the region remains unpaid. Cop31 co-hosts Turkey and Australia are pushing to speed up the switch to electric transport, heating and industry, but participating countries are divided over how to wind down the use of coal, oil…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}