Sunday Quick Cuts: 10th Day of COPmas

Listening, Watching, Reading while Lords are a-Leaping Around Dubai

Welcome back to Wicked Problems. The climate tech show and newsletter that some people are saying is either the optimists’ cure for the Verdrängungsgesellschaft or just the organ of another neoliberal shill. Tune in to one of this week’s show(s) to find out.*

We’ll get to a roundup of things that have popped up on our radar - and as you’d expect it’s a target-rich environment. But first - COPwatch:

1. Don’t Threaten Us With a Good Time

Since 1952, hope triumphing over experience

Expecting things to be different this time is hazardous to your mental health. But like Charlie Brown, you feel compelled to give it one last try.

If there was a grand bargain behind a COP28 press release this week it was probably struck a couple weeks ago in California, during meetings between the leaders of the “G2” - the biggest economies and emitters, China and the US. Everything else is just a trade show.

One of the benefits of not being in Dubai is that we’re at safe distance from the sleep-deprived Blue Zon…