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Nov 2021
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Heat of the Moment: Paris' Promises and ...

Foreign Policy
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We introduce the second season of Heat of the Moment, a podcast that like And Now The Hard Part, tells stories from the front lines of one of the world's biggest challenges: the climate crisis.


Now that COP26 has wrapped up, we wanted to take a second look at our episode Paris' Promises and Glasgow's Gutcheck: Assessing the impact of the UN Climate Change Conference.


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