Illustration: Kati Szilagyi for Bloomberg Green
Superpower Rivalry and Vaccine Envy Set Stage for Climate Talks
Veterans of annual global climate negotiations say the geopolitical backdrop makes a major breakthrough challenging this year
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Premiers, presidents, and princes come and go from the world’s biggest climate stage. It’s the nature of the annual international climate talks organized by the United Nations, known as the Conference of the Parties. The guest list changes with whichever parties are in power. Only someone like Jennifer Morgan, the head of Greenpeace International, gets to be a COP fixture—and in more than two decades she’s never seen the geopolitical backdrop change as dramatically as it has ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.