The Economist’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran joins FP Live for a preview of COP28.
The 28th edition of the international climate summit known as the Conference of the Parties—or COP—convened in Dubai last week, just as scientists announced that 2023 was likely to be the hottest year in recorded human history. Host Ravi Agrawal spoke to Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the global energy and climate innovation editor at the Economist, about what to expect.
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