Last year, powerful leaders gathered in Glasgow for a UN climate conference that was billed as the 'last best chance' to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. At this year's event, things will be more subdued.
She said this COP will focus on "the details and the nuts and bolts of how we will actually implement all of these plans".
"I think a lot of people thought that we were in the post-COVID era, but actually there's been a lot of other crises that the world has had to face and endure," Ms Do said. Some of those crises are climate-related — like the devastating floods in India — but because they require immediate recovery work, the broader discussion on climate change has taken a back seat, said Ms Do.
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