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Nov 2021
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COP26: success or failure?

Financial Times
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https://www.ft.com/content/f1dbd73c-381c-475b-8b22-fa07abd6d92f


Gideon talks to Simon Mundy, author of Race For Tomorrow, about how he would assess global efforts to tackle climate change in the wake of this month’s gathering of world leaders in Glasgow.

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