An uneasy climate alliance

The 28th edition of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — COP28 — ended in Dubai last week. For many climate activists, it was a failure, with the action promised in the final communique far less than what is the minimum necessary to bend the curve of carbon emissions down towards the zone that would keep the world below 1.5 or even two degrees of global warming. This failure, many believe, was pre-ordained — giving COP28 to a major fossil fuel exporter like the United Arab Emirates, which then chose a president for

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