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So COP27 is in November.\u00a0 Last year the build-up seemed huge for the last international climate conference in Glasgow, COP26.\u00a0 This time; not so much.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But is that my UK media bubble? The September news has been dominated by Truss\u2019s new government\u2019s jump to the right; the Queen\u2019s death; and the successful Ukrainian counter offensive. Not much room for COP27. While last year our government was the COP26 host and dying to talk about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I decided to do some semi-scientific google searches<\/span>.\u00a0 My conclusion: maybe the relative silence of COP27 is not so clear-cut and you need to be aware of the media that is serving you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing does look definite: there is a new issue getting media coverage and that is \u201closs and damage\u201d from climate change.\u00a0 This was not even being talked about at this stage last year, even by <\/span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/i>, a key global South media outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLoss and Damage\u201d is the buzz term for demands from the global South for compensation from the global North for damage caused by climate change, for which the North is clearly and largely responsible.\u00a0 It was raised at COP26 by the global South but <\/span>never got formal recognition in any text because the US and EU blocked attempts to provide that recognition<\/span><\/a>. Or at least that is what the COP26 president, Alok Sharma, claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s minister for climate change, Sherry Rehman, has been a strong, recent advocate for compensation as her country has suffered unimaginably disastrous flooding.\u00a0 This has made the news in <\/span>The Guardian, Washington Post and Al Jazeera<\/span><\/i>. It even made the <\/span>Daily Mail<\/span><\/i>, probably the UK\u2019s most right-wing mainstream media outlet, but I couldn\u2019t find a mention in its US equivalent, <\/span>Fox News.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Our prime minister is apparently not even going to show at COP27 at all. Not a good start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So are we and our respective governments going to listen, accept our responsibility and respond to what seem eminently reasonable demands? Or, as it appears to have been with COP26, seek to cancel those demands and their advocates?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The global North\u2019s record for admitting responsibility for its impacts on the global South would caution against optimism. Our prime minister is apparently not even going to show at COP27 at all. Not a good start.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, maybe with the brutal nature of climate change impacts in full view alongside a very different international political economy, things could change.\u00a0 In the growing new Cold War, could the West\u2019s need for allies give the global South a new angle, a more persuasive proposition?<\/span><\/p>\n

Could the West\u2019s need for allies give the global South a new angle, a more persuasive proposition?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this edition, I discuss this and related issues with director of the Third World Network, Chee Yoke Ling<\/a> \u2013\u00a0the network supports engagement of the global South with international policy. I\u00a0 also speak with Pakistan-based, media expert, Waqar Rizvi<\/a>.\u00a0 And we get <\/span>a view of climate change as seen in Bangladesh from Rohini Kamal<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

More broadly in this quarter\u2019s issue we aim to escape our global North bubble dominated by war, inflation and national political conflict, and get perspectives from the global South on what the big issues look like there.\u00a0 Patricia Gestoso looks at <\/span>the southern labour exploitation underpinning digital transformation<\/span><\/a>; Harshita Bahsin and Anirban Dasgupta <\/span>warn of the perils of food importation<\/span><\/a>; Jayan Jose Thomas looks at <\/span>the challenge of harnessing the potential of India\u2019s huge growing young population<\/span><\/a>; and Alex Kozul-Wright looks at the potential of new wave of left wing politicians in South America<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We also hear from Chris Mour\u00e9 how the US aim to reduce computer chip scarcity might be ill-conceived<\/a>, while Alex Kozul-Wright reviews <\/span>Guy Standing\u2019s new book, <\/span>The Blue Commons: rescuing the economy of the Sea<\/span><\/i><\/a> and Caroline Knowles takes us into <\/span>the world of <\/span>Quant<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the economics front, we talk to George DeMartino about his new book <\/a><\/span>The Tragic Science<\/span><\/i>, and Guy Dauncey reviews Christopher Leonard\u2019s book, <\/a><\/span>The Lords of Easy Money<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally from our regular columnists, Frances Coppola<\/a> looks and Emeritus Professor Verity Bastion<\/a> both discuss Trussonomics with somewhat different perspectives and styles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best wishes with the coming winter which looks like it is going to be very challenging on so very many fronts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Henry Leveson-Gower<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor<\/span><\/p>\n



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