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Why more promises won’t cut it at COP this week

Backsliding and inconsistency on national climate commitments is deeply troubling ahead of the UN-backed climate summit starting this week.

Mary Robinson

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This year will go down in history as the one when global temperature records were not merely surpassed but shattered.

There is also a risk that 2023 becomes the year that multilateral co-operation on climate fractures, if leaders do not respond at the scale and with the urgency the science demands.

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