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Environment
World fails to reach drought agreement in Saudi-sponsored talks
COP16 delegates walk past a giant poster of Saudi Arabian ruins at the start of the UNCCD talks. Participants said Saturday that negotiators at Saudi-hosted United Nations talks were unable to reach an agreement on how to respond to the drought, falling short of an expected binding drought protocol. . The 12-day Conference of the Parties to the United Nations…
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Science
After a disappointing COP29, here’s how to design global climate talks that could actually work
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many people who have been involved in global climate change negotiations for years see the annual United Nations COP climate negotiations as fundamentally flawed. That includes me. The 29th round of talks concluded on Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was probably my 25th COP. I have attended these talks in a variety of roles, but primarily…
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