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December 12, 2018, 6:32 PM UTC

Climate Emergency Meets Grinding Diplomacy in Poland

Bobby Magill
Bobby Magill
Reporter

The sidelines of the international climate talks in Katowice, Poland, this week are bustling with activists, scientists, and officials warning of the urgency to get climate change under control.

Acute tension at the U.N. Climate Conference exists between those on the same side of the climate fight: between the grindingly slow climate talks trying to hammer out rules and those who call for a solution to what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called an existential crisis for humanity.

“Things are obviously proceeding very slowly,” Richard Betts, a climate scientist at the University of ...

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