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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Donald Trump says he'll turn the US into the global capital for crypto.</li><li>Trump delivered the promise at Bitcoin 2024, an annual cryptocurrency conference.</li></ul>Former President Donald Trump wants you to know he loves Bitcoin now.Trump spoke at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville on Saturday, calling cryptocurrency "the steel industry of 100 years ago.""I think you're just in your infancy," Trump told the meeting of crypto industry leaders. "I can see it happening. In just 15 years, bitcoin has gone from merely an idea posted anonymously on an internet message board to being the ninth most valuable asset anywhere in the world."Trump said he'd lay out a plan "to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the bitcoin superpower of the world."This plan, he said, would include firing the US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, Gary Gensler, creating a crypto presidential advisory council, blocking the creation of a central digital currency bank, and eliminating federal regulations on crypto known as "Checkpoint 2.0."Trump also pledged to keep 100% of all bitcoin owned by the federal government — most of which was confiscated by law enforcement — to keep as a "strategic national bitcoin stockpile."Trump's opinion of bitcoin appears to have come full circle. During his presidency in 2019, Trump called bitcoin "highly volatile and based on thin air.""We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever," Trump wrote on what was then known as Twitter. "It is called the United States Dollar!"But Trump is now a bonafide crypto stan as he courts support from leading crypto investors. Earlier this month, Gemini co-founders and crypto investors <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/cameron-and-tyler-winklevoss-each-contributed-250000-to-new-trump-aligned-super-pac-1033560454">Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss donated $250,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC</a>.Bitcoin prices surged after <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-not-going-to-become-nice-shooting-didnt-change-him-2024-7">the assassination attempt on Trump</a> earlier this month rallied his base. The currency reached a high of $62,000 as investors started betting on Trump's return to power in November.One of Trump's opponents, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also spoke at the conference on Friday, teasing Trump's stockpile plans."I understand that tomorrow President Trump may announce his plan to build a bitcoin Fort Knox and authorize the US government to buy a million bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset," Kennedy said. "And I applaud that announcement."But Kennedy said he'd go even further. The candidate would immediately sign an executive order directing the US Treasury to buy bitcoin daily and add it <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-cryptocurrency-seizure-silk-road-james-zhong-2022-11">to the government's current tokens</a> until the country builds a reserve of four million bitcoin, he said.One million bitcoin is about $69 billion, according to Coinbase. Four billion bitcoin is about $276 billion.Trump also took the opportunity to attack the crypto position of his likely Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. "She's very against it," he said. But Harris's stance on cryptocurrency actually remains unknown. She has <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-tech-issues-ai-big-tech-crypto-silicon-valley-2024-7">made no clear public comments</a> on the issue.The former president also promised to commute the prison sentence of Ross Ulbricht during his speech at the conference. Ulbricht is <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbricht-will-be-sentenced-soon--heres-how-he-was-arrested-2015-5">serving a life sentence for operating the Silk Road</a> site on the dark web, which was used to sell drugs and other black market products from 2011 to 2013.

Trump says he'll create a 'bitcoin national stockpile' as he courts the cryptocurrency crowd at Nashville conference

<keyword id="21333142" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Indias-population" source="keywords">India's population</keyword> is projected to peak in the early 2060s at about <keyword id="22386427" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="1-7-billion" source="keywords">1.7 billion</keyword> and then decline by 12%, but the country will remain the world's most populous throughout the century, the <keyword id="19896118" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="United-Nations" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="United Nations" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="United Nations">United Nations</keyword> has said. The World Population Prospects 2024 report, released on Thursday, said that the world's population is expected to continue growing over the coming 50-60 years, reaching a peak of around 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s, significantly up from 8.2 billion in 2024. After peaking, the global population is projected to start declining gradually, falling to 10.2 billion people by the end of the century. India, which surpassed <keyword id="19894886" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="China" source="keywords">China</keyword> as the world's most populous nation last year, will continue to hold that position through 2100. "The population of India, which is expected to remain the world's largest throughout the century, will likely decline by 12% after reaching its peak in the early 2060s at about 1.7 billion," the <keyword id="19898339" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="UN" source="keywords">UN</keyword> report published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), <keyword id="271075" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="population-division" source="Orion">Population Division</keyword> said. According to the report, India's population in 2024 is projected at 1.45 billion and this will peak to 1.69 billion in 2054. After this, India's population is projected to decline to 1.5 billion by the end of the century in 2100, but the country will still remain the most populous nation on Earth. Responding to a question by PTI on population projections for India, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Population Division, <keyword id="6355835" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="un" source="Orion">UN</keyword> DESA Clare Menozzi said at a press conference that "India is currently the largest country in the world in terms of population, and it is projected to stay so throughout the century. The population is currently estimated at 1.45 billion, and it's supposed to increase further to 1.69 billion. "It's supposed to peak around the 2060s in size and then it starts to slightly decline. So by the end of the century, India is projected to be around 1.5 billion, but will still the largest country in the world by a large margin." The report said that China's population, currently 1.41 billion in 2024, will fall to 1.21 billion in 2054 and further decline to 633 million by 2100. "It is anticipated that China, the country currently with the world's second-largest population, will likely experience the largest absolute population loss between 2024 and 2054 (204 million)," followed by <keyword id="6355311" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Japan" source="Orion">Japan</keyword> (21 million) and <keyword id="6358826" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> (10 million). "Longer-range population projections are more uncertain" for China, it said. "However, due to its large size and sustained low level of fertility, China is also likely to record the largest population decline of any country through the end of the century (786 million people). By 2100, China is projected to have lost more than a half of its current population and to have returned to a population size comparable to that recorded in the late 1950s (50% probability)." Responding to a question on the significantly low population projection for China, Director of the Population Division at UN DESA John Wilmoth said that "it really relates to the level of fertility that's observed currently in China. The current number is right around one birth per woman on average over a lifetime." "Given that you need 2.1 births to maintain the current population without migration, if fertility levels remain at such a low level, even if they come up slightly, any fertility level if it's below two, or especially below 1.8 or below 1.5, you're really getting into low levels of fertility and it produces a long run decline that's quite significant. And that's true for China. It's true for some other countries in this analysis," Wilmoth said. Currently, nearly one-fifth of all countries and areas, including China, Italy, the Republic of Korea and Spain, are experiencing what is sometimes referred to as "ultra-low" fertility, with fewer than 1.4 live births per woman over a lifetime. The report added that the global fertility rate currently stands at 2.25 live births per woman, down from 3.31 births in 1990. "More than half of all countries and areas globally have fertility below the replacement level of 2.1 live births per woman. This is the level required for a population to maintain a constant size in the long run (without migration), with each generation being followed by another of roughly equal size," it said. Pakistan is projected to overtake the US as the third-largest country in the world, with a population of 389 million in 2054. Currently, the US is the third largest country in the world with a population of 345 million and in 2054, it will be the fourth largest with 384 million people. Pakistan will remain the third largest country in the world, with a population of 511 million people in 2100. The report said that the estimated likelihood that the world's population will peak within the current century is very high, with a probability of 80%, a major change in UN projections from a decade ago, when this probability was around 30%. The size of the world's population in 2100 is now expected to be 6%smaller - or about 700 million people fewer - than anticipated a decade ago. In about 126 countries and areas, the population is likely to continue growing through 2054, potentially reaching a peak later in the century or beyond 2100. This group includes several of the world's most populous countries: India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the United States of America. In 2023, the global number of deaths among children under age 5 fell below 5 million for the first time in recent history. However, 95% of such deaths took place in the 126 countries with populations that are still growing, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. The report added that globally, life expectancy at birth reached 73.3 years in 2024, an increase of 8.4 years since 1995. Further reductions in mortality are projected to result in an average longevity of around 77.4 years globally in 2054. Since 2022, life expectancy has returned to levels observed before the emergence of the coronavirus disease in nearly all countries and areas. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 and 2021, global life expectancy at birth fell to 70.9 years, down from 72.6 in 2019. The report said that by 2080, persons aged 65 or older will outnumber children under 18. "By the late 2070s, the number of persons at ages 65 years and higher globally is projected to reach 2.2 billion, surpassing the number of children (under age 18). By the mid-2030s, it is projected that there will be 265 million persons aged 80 years or older, more than the number of infants (1 year of age or less)," it said.

India's population to peak in early 2060s to 1.7 billion before declining: UN

According to a new analysis, <keyword id="19895063" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="India" source="keywords">India</keyword> contributed $1.28 billion in <keyword id="20000757" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="climate-finance" source="keywords">climate finance</keyword> through <keyword id="20401772" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="multilateral-development-banks" source="keywords">multilateral development banks</keyword> (MDBs) in 2022, surpassing the contributions of many developed countries. The study, conducted by the UK-based think tank ODI and the <keyword id="23038658" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Zurich-Climate-Resilience-Alliance" source="Orion">Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance</keyword>, comes amid a renewed push by some developed countries to broaden the donor base for climate finance to include developing countries like China and <keyword id="50996" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Saudi-Arabia" source="Orion">Saudi Arabia</keyword>. The report reveals that only 12 developed countries provided their fair share of international climate finance in 2022. These countries are -- Norway, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and Finland. Researchers noted that the significant gap in climate finance is largely due to the United States failing to contribute its fair share. Australia, Spain, Canada and the United Kingdom also performed relatively poorly in this regard. The analysis has identified the top 30 non-Annex II countries that provided substantial climate finance to developing countries in 2022 through multilateral contributions to development banks and climate funds. This group includes former economies in transition like Poland and Russia, countries that have achieved high-income status since 1992, such as Chile, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and South Korea, and middle-income countries with large populations, including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines and Pakistan. India provided $1.287 billion in climate finance to other developing countries through MDBs in 2022, a sum larger than what was contributed by some developed countries like Greece ($0.23 billion), Portugal ($0.23 billion), Ireland ($0.3 billion) and New Zealand ($0.27 billion). China provided $ 2.52 billion in climate finance through MDBs in 2022, Brazil gave $ 1.135 billion, South Korea gave $1.13 billion and Argentina gave $1.01 billion. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (<keyword id="21931277" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="UNFCCC" source="keywords">UNFCCC</keyword>), adopted in 1992, high-income, industrialised countries (referred to as Annex-II countries) are responsible for providing finance and technology to help developing countries combat and adapt to climate change. These countries, including the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and European Union (EU) member states, such as Germany, France and the UK, have historically benefitted from industrialisation and contributed the most to greenhouse gas emissions. At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, these developed countries pledged to jointly provide $100 billion each year by 2020 to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, this target has not been fully met, leading to a significant finance gap. This shortfall has eroded trust and hindered climate action in developing countries. In May, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (<keyword id="19916574" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="OECD" source="keywords">OECD</keyword>) claimed that developed countries had met the long-standing $ 100 billion-a-year promise by providing nearly $ 116 billion in climate finance to developing countries in 2022, with nearly 70 % of the money given in the form of loans. The ODI researchers pointed out that many developed countries, despite performing well in terms of climate-finance contributions, would make "markedly less progress towards meeting their fair share if the finance provided was accounted for on grant-equivalence terms" -- in other words, if it reflected their real fiscal effort. The report calls for the inclusion of a "burden-sharing mechanism" in the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) to provide clarity on each country's obligations and hold countries accountable. The NCQG refers to the new, larger amount that developed nations must mobilise annually, starting 2025, to support climate action in developing countries. Countries are expected to finalise the NCQG at this year's UN climate conference -- <keyword id="20082972" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="COP29" source="keywords">COP29</keyword> -- in Baku, Azerbaijan in November. The current $100 billion annual climate-finance goal is a collective commitment by developed countries. Its collective nature has meant that individual developed countries are not accountable for specific sums of money, potentially reducing the overall amount of climate finance provided due to the lack of individual scrutiny. The inclusion of a burden-sharing arrangement among developed countries could potentially strengthen the NCQG by fostering greater accountability and trust among parties, according to the ODI researchers. Many developing countries, including India, have recently advocated for such an arrangement to enhance accountability among developed countries.

India provided more climate finance in 2022 than many rich nations, noted recent report

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11935793" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="north-korea" source="Orion">North Korea</keyword> has assumed the temporary presidency of the Conference of Disarmament.</li><li>Forty-eight nations issued a joint statement protesting the appointment but didn't stage a walkout.</li></ul>North Korea now holds the presidency of the Conference of Disarmament, the top international forum on disarmament recognized by the <keyword id="11896449" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="united-nations" source="Orion">United Nations</keyword>, multiple media outlets reported.The appointment comes despite the hermit nation alarming the West and its neighbors with a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-fires-icbm-missile-test-after-biden-asia-visit-2022-5">spate of banned ICBM tests over the last few months.</a><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220602-protests-as-n-korea-takes-helm-of-world-disarmament-body">According to Agence France-Presse</a>, Pyongyang's ambassador, Han Tae-Song, assumed the presidency of the 65-member group on Thursday and will hold it until July 1.The conference's presidency rotates between its members in alphabetical order according to their country names in English. Currently, it is North Korea's turn to chair the meeting in Geneva.Han opened the session by recognizing the "honor and privilege," of the role, per <a href="https://apnews.com/article/european-union-united-nations-north-korea-nuclear-weapons-government-and-politics-2cfc7f0c3d104fd8af244d690966a28f">The Associated Press</a>.However, the niceties didn't last long. Han later declared before the body that his country is "still at war with the United States," per AFP.Amanda Gorely, Australia's ambassador at the conference, read a joint statement by 48 countries expressing outrage at North Korea's assumption of the presidency, per AP. The statement said these nations were "gravely concerned" about its "reckless actions which continue to seriously undermine the very value" of the conference.Responding to the criticisms, Han said he had "taken note" of the statement, AFP reported.Several non-governmental organizations had initially urged a walkout of the room to signal a diplomatic protest, although none eventually took place, per the outlet. Instead, some states such as the US, UK, the European Union, Australia, and South Korea chose to send lower-level diplomats to the meeting.The Conference of Disarmament aims to prevent nuclear war and end the nuclear arms race but hasn't produced any significant deals since 1996, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61679432">the BBC reported.</a>

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