Here's what else is happening

• 🛟SOS Méditerranée's rescue operations at risk amid Geneva funding cuts. The NGO dedicated to rescuing stranded migrants at sea has to find CHF2.7 million for next year after the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies announced it was ending its partnership over financial constraints.
  Keystone-SDA via Swissinfo (EN)
• ✂️Swiss National Council wants further cuts in international cooperation. Parliament’s lower house has voted to reduce funding for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation by approximately CHF30m and transfer CHF24m from its budget to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs for economic cooperation.
  Le Temps🔐 (FR)
• 💰Switzerland raises funding for International Geneva. The Swiss upper house approved a CHF122.6m credit requested by the government to strengthen its diplomatic hub from 2026-2029, rejecting efforts by some political parties to authorise no more than half the amount and from the left to raise it to CHF152.6m.
  Keystone-SDA via Swissinfo (EN)
• 🏭Fight over fossil fuels nixes key text of UN environment report. Countries failed to agree on a political summary of the UN’s largest-ever scientific report on the dire state of the environment after Saudi Arabia and the United States blocked references to phasing out fossil fuels. Gender and other sensitive issues also faced resistance.
  AFP via France24 (EN)
• 🚫UN Palestinian aid agency says Israeli police ‘forcibly entered’ its Jerusalem compound. UNRWA accused Israel of violating its “privileges and immunities as a UN agency” as it scales up its campaign against the agency after banning it from operating in Israeli territory.
  Associated Press (EN)