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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

COP 130
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