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• Date: 01 December 2021
• Author: Stockwell, Norman

Dear Progressive reader,

Last year at this time, a presidential election had been held, but the votes were not yet certified. At the same time, a pandemic was raging, but a vaccine had not yet been approved. And in December 2019, as the United Nations annual climate summit was being held, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would say he was disappointed, and that world leaders had missed an opportunity to be more ambitious on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and financing for poorer countries.

Since then, on lanuary...