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Copping out? Biden skips UN climate conference

Copping out? Biden skips UN climate conference

Politics Weekly America vor 2 Jahren

Jonathan Freedland speaks to climate activist, Jerome Foster, who in 2021 became the youngest adviser to the White House when he was asked to sit on its environmental justice advisory council

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The UN’s Cop28 climate conference has kicked off in Dubai this week
– but one notable absence will be the US president. Joe Biden
pledged to make the fight against climate breakdown one of his top
priorities when he took office, and news of his absence from this
year’s gathering has frustrated activists. Jonathan Freedland
speaks to one such activist, Jerome Foster, who in 2021 became the
youngest adviser to the White House when he was asked to sit on its
environmental justice advisory council