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      What If the World Cannot Save the World?

      The crisis of international governance on a planet rife with emergencies.

      John Feffer
      Mar 05, 2023

      The United Nations has convened 27 conferences on climate change. For nearly three decades, the international community has come together at a different location every year to pool its collective wisdom, resources, and resolve to address this global threat. These Conferences of Parties (COPs) have produced important agreements, such as the Paris Accords of 2015 on the reduction of carbon emissions and most recently at Sharm el-Sheikh a Loss & Damage Fund to help countries currently experiencing the most impact from climate change.

      And yet the threat of climate change has only grown larger. In 2022, carbon emissions grew by nearly 2 percent.

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