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‘It’s anarchic’: Ed Miliband on what COP climate talks are really like

By Adam Vaughan

24 October 2021

Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband was the UK’s climate minister at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009

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Around 25,000 delegates will descend on Glasgow, UK, for COP26, a climate conference like no other. As a key player at one of the most important climate summits that preceded it, Ed Miliband has a better insight than most on what those people will experience.

Miliband, who is currently shadow business secretary for the UK’s Labour Party, was the nation’s climate minister at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, which was widely seen…

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