Climate disasters put plight of displaced in COP27 focus
Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia — one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons.
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But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
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