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Emission creep: a contentious COP closes - The Intelligence from The Economist

Emission creep: a contentious COP closes - The Intelligence from The Economist

Update: 2025-11-24
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It is telling and troubling that the annual climate talking-shop’s outcome did not even mention fossil fuels. We ask whether the COP process is still fit for purpose. Cryptocurrencies could be heading for an almighty fall: what would they take down with them? And the revealing vowels and diphthongs of whale communications. (Hear much more on animal communication in our series on “Babbage”: part 1 asks whether animals truly have language, and part 2 whether AI could translate it.) 


Additional audio courtesy of Project CETI


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Emission creep: a contentious COP closes - The Intelligence from The Economist

Emission creep: a contentious COP closes - The Intelligence from The Economist