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COP 27 Dispatch: Climate hope is alive, but tough choices ahead

If you believe in an equitable response to the climate crisis, the hope is still alive, but the hard decisions are still to come. At COP 27, there was a promise of funding for loss and damage, but the equitable phase out of all fossil fuels remained elusive. This is unbalanced and thus doomed. Think about it: the more fossil fuels burned, the more loss and damage and adaptation costs we face.

November 25, 2022