As COP28 gets underway in Dubai this week, there is a flurry of new reports out from UN and scientific bodies. They are delivering plenty of bad news about the seriousness of the situation we humans have created for our planetary home, urging us to take action now to save ourselves. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres is literally running out of words to convey the urgency of the situation. He tells us that “we are trapped in a deadly cycle” due to our fossil fuel addiction and we need to “act now: to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees…

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