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The cost of the crisis is currently borne most sharply by those least responsible, and least able to withstand its impacts

Having promised he could save the world, there’s very little time left to rescue this critical summit from failure

HAWAII, USA; BRUSSELS, Belgium; VICTORIA, Seychelles; BALI, Indonesia – In a keynote address to the CAPA Aviation Summit, Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President of ICTP (International Coalition of Tou | eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Above all, a virtual Cop would be a safe Cop, and not just in terms of Covid. The drama of some previous Cops has been disastrous. The shambolic end to Cop15 in Copenhagen in 2009, when Barack Obama strove to salvage a last-minute deal from scenes of chaos, has left deep scars. Because the UNFCCC requires consensus, a handful of wrecking nations can wreak havoc. At the last Cop, in Madrid in 2019, Brazil held the rest of the world to ransom, refusing to sign up to new carbon rules. For these re...

The world’s climate champions are hoping that a “Climate Ambition Summit” this weekend will start putting the planet back on track to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming at 2 C. It will be led by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. The Paris Cop21 agreement – the world’s first universal climate control pact – committed all 195 signatories to re...