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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey, Dharna Noor, Damian Carrington and Ajit Niranjan in Baku

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts

People walk on the embankment with the Flame Towers in the background
This year’s talks are nearing their halfway mark in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Future UN climate summits should be held only in countries that can show clear support for climate action and have stricter rules on fossil fuel lobbying, according to a group of influential climate policy experts.

The group includes former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and the prominent climate scientist Johan Rockström.

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