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After spending a week in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, I’m now gearing up to attend the 29 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the Framework Convention on ClimateChange in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11-22.
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And over and above those trends, there’s climatechange — leading to a sharp increase in extreme weather events with more yet to come. ” The moral: Historical patterns of event frequency are no longer reliable — climatechange is disrupting past patterns. Climatechange will only intensify the inequalities.
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