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Greta’s not going, neither is King Charles, China’s Xi Jinping nor India’s Narendra Modi. The red carpet at the Conference of the Parties (Cop) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Egypt will be decidedly threadbare this year as leaders of key global states snub the summit. Prospects for any kind of breakthrough remain slim, with observers forecasting anything from a diplomatic disaster over loss and damage, to a best-case scenario of a modest breakthrough in climate finance. None of this will seem like the appropriate reaction to the extreme weather events of 2022. If you are...
