Negotiations at any COP27 meeting are often fraught – especially when developing countries are demanding more from developed countries for loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. Or between fossil fuel proponents and environmentalists. But one ...
November 23, 2022
Our planet in peril – what climate science is saying by Julia Evans, Daily Maverick November 23, 2022 A new report launched at this year’s meeting in Egypt has pulled together information from climate change research published in 2021 and 2022 to identify 10 salient climate science insights.
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