Will coffee get the love it greatly deserves during the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai? We explain why it should be on the official agenda and look at efforts underway to protect it.
Also in today’s edition: Top tips for surviving COP 28, the European Union agrees to boost aid, and USAID resumes aid to Ethiopia.
Attendees will have their diet strictly curtailed at this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP 28, with two-thirds of the food served in Dubai set to be plant-based. Coffee, on the other hand, will be in abundance in liquid form — but may not be on the summit’s agenda, even as rising temperatures and downpours jeopardize its existence.
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Helen Murphy
Helen is an award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development in the Americas. Based in Colombia, she previously covered war, politics, financial markets, and general news for Reuters, where she headed the bureau, and for Bloomberg in Colombia and Argentina, where she witnessed the financial meltdown. She started her career in London as a reporter for Euromoney Publications before moving to Hong Kong to work for a daily newspaper.
