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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Maya Goodfellow

‘Climate negotiations are inherently abusive’: campaigner Brianna Craft on the struggle smaller countries face

Brianna Craft standing ina garden in. ablue top, smiling for a portrait and holding a copy of her memoir, Everything That Rises
Brianna Craft: ‘Rich, powerful countries have so much more ability to shape decisions as they want.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

When Brianna Craft arrived at her first UN climate conference in 2011, she was 24, optimistic and full of hope, believing that the negotiations were where the crisis would be solved.

More than a decade later, her feelings have changed significantly. “Yes, it is the only thing that exists where the poorest countries have a seat at the table,” she says of the annual “conferences of the parties”, or Cops, “but that does not mean it is a good thing, or a right thing, or a just thing”.

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