Climate activist on COP27: ‘Global North has to pay up’
By DW
23 November 2022 |
2:20 pm
Luisa Neubauer, a prominent German activist with Fridays for Future, told DW that world leaders underestimate "the amount of mistrust" felt by vulnerable countries at this year's UN climate talks in Egypt.
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