A pivot year for clean energy; a year of climate folly in the South


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AS it comes to a close, 2022 presents a mixed picture of pluses and minuses on the climate front. In its review of the year, The Associated Press (AP) concluded that "policy, climate and war have made 2022 a pivot year for clean energy." In its own assessment, however, the Manhattan-based City Journal saw the year as a time of "climate folly" in the developing world. The public policy magazine and website is unimpressed by the idea that rich countries should hand over money in climate reparations to poor countries as proposed by COP27, and aims to show how such...