The list of “no shows” at the two-week COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan is long: China, the US, Germany, Japan, Australia, France, Brazil and Mexico are all sitting this one out. Someone who did show up, though, is Tina Stege, the climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. In conversation with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler, she discusses how the countries most vulnerable to climate change are trying to fill the leadership vacuum.
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