, Columnist
A Climate Breakthrough Has Rarely Looked Bleaker
It’s politics, not logistics or physics, that’s stopping us from tackling climate change.
Heading in the wrong direction.
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Has there ever been a grimmer backdrop to the world’s most concerted attempt to avert global warming?
COP29 — the annual conference for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — is happening this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, one of the birthplaces of the modern oil industry and (according to civil liberties group Freedom House) among the most oppressive societies on the planet.