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The Other, Better COP31

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Why (valid) critiques of UN climate conferences miss half the story

Greetings from Antalya, Türkiye, where I’m participating in COP31, the yearly gathering of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. These annual conferences of the parties, or COPs, bring together government negotiators from countries around the world to advance priorities under the UNFCCC and its subsidiary agreements, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris …

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