Delivering on the Glasgow Climate Pact in a changing world

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Delivering on the Glasgow Climate Pact in a changing world

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech to Tufts University last week urged countries to step up their efforts to meet commitments made at COP26 Climate Summit last autumn

Ladies and gentlemen, when Charles Tufts was asked what he planned to do with his land, and his "bleak hill over in Medford," he is said to have replied, "I will put a light on it." That he did, laying...

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