LAST-MINUTE APPEALSare common in the weeks preceding theCOP, theUN’s annual climate summit. Green groups urge world leaders to promise bold action. Poor countries ask rich ones for money. Ahead of this year’s event, which starts in Glasgow on October 31st, a group representing indigenous people is asking for donations of jackets, wellies and waterproofs. It notes that Amazonian indigenous folk who plan to attend “have not experienced a climate like a Scottish winter”.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Heated debates”
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