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Why Rishi Sunak flip-flopped on Cop

Can the climate crisis summit achieve anything?

As Cop27, the UN climate conference, starts in Egypt, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by India Bourke, our environment correspondent, to discuss why Rishi Sunak U-turned and is now attending, what might be announced and why it’s disappointing that the leaders of so many other countries are not going.

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Greta Thunberg on why Cop27 is a “scam”

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