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Five must-reads as COP29 enters full swing.
This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, has been overshadowed by Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election—an outcome that almost guarantees that Washington will back out of its international climate commitments.
Election aside, an air of unease has loomed over the climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, a country that relies on oil and gas production. The presence of many fossil fuel-linked lobbyists at the summit has sparked criticism. A group of climate leaders, including former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, wrote to the U.N. last week to say that COP is “no longer fit for purpose.”
Can the U.N. climate talks be fixed? And if not, what are other ways to spur global action as the world barrels toward 1.5 degrees of warming? The essays below offer big-picture analysis of the current state of the international climate movement, as well as some suggestions for new ways forward.
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