I’ve seen 21 years of COP failures. Paris needs to deliver action, not talk | Adil Najam

Climate change is having a profound impact on my country, Pakistan, but talk of binding agreements at COP 21 is dismissed as 'unrealistic'

It was December 2009. I remember sitting on a plane on my way to Copenhagen. I wondered if this would be the historic moment when the world came to its senses.

There was hope in the air. Indeed, I was greeted by stickers on the subway that renamed Denmark's capital "Hopenhagen". I smiled.

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