It’s that time of year again, and the usual suspects are gathering for the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP 31) in the Turkish city of Antalya. Almost every country except the United States has a delegation there and there will be a great deal of talk about the changing climate, but not much will be done about it.
This is more or less by design. If you wanted to create an organization that really does things, you would not make membership open to every country and give every member a veto. Yet COP 31, like all the COPs before it, includes many countries that depend on fossil fuels for domestic energy, export income, or both.
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