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“H is For Hope” sounded a bit better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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“H is For Hope” sounded a bit better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

By Dan Drollette Jr| July 15, 2024

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Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates. 

Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.

The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21). 

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