Activists dressed as debt collectors hold cutouts of world leaders during a demonstration at the International Monetary Fund headquarters to ask rich nations to keep their commitment to support developing countries in tackling climate change, in Washington on October 13. Photo: AFP
Activists dressed as debt collectors hold cutouts of world leaders during a demonstration at the International Monetary Fund headquarters to ask rich nations to keep their commitment to support developing countries in tackling climate change, in Washington on October 13. Photo: AFP
Anthony Rowley
Opinion

Opinion

Macroscope by Anthony Rowley

How the fight against climate change can get real at COP26

  • The meeting should not result in governments coming up with stricter – and largely meaningless – emission targets, but agreement on a joint public and private sector approach
  • The entry of multilateral development banks into the climate change battle on a larger scale could bring organisation and resources into what is a largely uncoordinated exercise

Activists dressed as debt collectors hold cutouts of world leaders during a demonstration at the International Monetary Fund headquarters to ask rich nations to keep their commitment to support developing countries in tackling climate change, in Washington on October 13. Photo: AFP
Activists dressed as debt collectors hold cutouts of world leaders during a demonstration at the International Monetary Fund headquarters to ask rich nations to keep their commitment to support developing countries in tackling climate change, in Washington on October 13. Photo: AFP
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