*[Enwl-eng] COP28 enters key moment; podcast from Brazil

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                   Global Edition | 11 December 2023 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  World leaders and climate scientists are in what is scheduled to be the last full day of negotiations at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Stay across our coverage here. On the other side of the world, as we reported recently, Brazil is gripped by drought in the Amazon. 

                  In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, I caught up with Cesar Baima, an editor with The Conversation in Brazil, and Philip Fearnside, an ecologist who has spent 45 years living in and studying the Amazon region.

                  Philip lives in Manaus, a city of around two million people in Brazil’s Amazonas state. A professor at the country’s National Institute of Amazonian Research, he told me more about why the region is suffering from a severe and unprecedented drought, why that’s so dangerous for the planet, and what can be done to protect the rainforest.
                 
                          Gemma Ware

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