In this week’s newsletter: what to expect of the next two weeks at the critical UN climate talks. Plus, this week’s most important reads
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The world has again convened for Cop, the annual ritual to confront humanity’s greatest-ever threat. Aside from its own lore and acronyms, this conference is starting to feel a little like Groundhog Day.
Representatives from almost all countries, bar the recalcitrant version of the US under Donald Trump, are here in Antalya, Turkey, to face a familiar if worsening challenge. (Even the Taliban are attending.)
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