Politics

What It Means to Have a Year Without Climate Diplomacy

A delay to the pivotal COP26 meeting doesn’t mean the pandemic has wrecked global climate action.

The Ifema exhibition center in Madrid hosted last year’s COP25 climate conference and is now a field hospital.

Photographer: Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images
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The two most important locations for international climate diplomacy—this year and last—have both been turned into field hospitals.