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Political leadership on climate and the 1.5°c limit: A normative framework

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School at POLIS, University of Leeds, walks us through political leadership on climate and the 1.5°C limit and discusses if this limit remains a meaningful normative framework for climate action.
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COP28: The fossil fuel COP and political leadership on climate

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School from POLIS, University of Leeds, reflects on COP28, focusing on the fossil fuel COP and political leadership on climate.
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Climate leadership now: Climate finance & political will

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School from POLIS, University of Leeds, unpacks the present challenge of climate leadership: climate finance and political will.

After COP27: Whither climate leadership?

The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27) – tasked, like every annual UNFCCC conference, to accelerate climate ambition and action – duly laboured under the current global crises. What and where next?
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Approaching COP27: some questions for climate leadership

COP27 is an opportunity for climate leadership to begin the long-term transition to net-zero, but is this now possible? asks Richard Beardsworth, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds

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