Sunday Quick Cuts: COP-ready?

Listening. Watching. Reading.

Welcome back to Wicked Problems. The most sensible take on climate tech since Angela Merkel ignored a last-second petrostate objector and gavelled COP1 to a close in 1995¹. Which is a great opening anecdote to the New Yorker’s curtain-raiser for COP28. The Economist’s is also well worth a read.

As Dubai prepares to welcome 70,000 people to the circus trade show networking event thought leadership platform vital international climate negotiations of COP28, here are some things on our radar we thought you might find interesting:

1. How to Tackle Your Inner Climate Denier

FT Columnist Simon Kuper’s piece was one of the most-read of the week. Here’s a flavour:

I was chatting with my teenage daughter the other day when she mentioned climate change. Inevitably, it causes her anxiety. She will probably live to see many coastal cities go under, countries become too hot to inhabit and rich havens shut out climate refugees. My instinctive response was to change the subject. I was exhibiting the n…