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Before COP28: New alliances in climate policy

The gridlocked fronts in international climate diplomacy have started to shift: New pioneers are emerging, and surprising alliances are aligning national interests in the global North and South. But there is one area where the old borders are still in place.

By Goswami Urmi

230920 -- UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20, 2023 -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres C attends the Climate Ambition Summit at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 20, 2023. Guterres on Wednesday warned that humanity has opened the gates of hell on climate. /Handout via Xinhua UN-CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT-GUTERRES MarkxGarten/UNxPhoto PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

Climate Ambition Summit: Guterres claims climate leadership

The UN's Climate Ambition Summit is putting the pressure on for a successful COP28. The summit was the antithesis of the grassroots climate conferences - and achieved something that is practically unthinkable in the diplomatic cosmos: A UN ranking of who takes climate action seriously and who does not.

By Bernhard Pötter