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    We can’t let short-term crises derail efforts to tame climate change

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    We can’t let short-term crises derail efforts to tame climate change


    GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 05: Young protestors attend the Fridays For Future COP26 Scotland March on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the "Fridays For Future" youth climate movement hold a march to George Square in the centre of Glasgow where popular youth activists will address the crowd. The 26th "Conference of the Parties" and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year's conference is to commit countries to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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    SIX months ago world leaders made grand promises to act on climate change. A war, an energy crisis and an inflation spike later, it is hard to find signs that the vows made at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, UK, are being honoured.

    Germany is building new gas terminals in haste, the UK is mulling classifying gas production as a green investment and Chinese coal production was up 10 per cent in the first four months of the year.

    Yet climate change marches inexorably on regardless. India has been hit by earlier heatwaves than usual. The Great Barrier Reef …



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