Keeping the world focused on climate change is a nonstop job

In this file photo taken on December 06,2019, a balloon in the shape of the Earth is pictured during a mass climate march to demand urgent action on the climate crisis from world leaders attending the COP25 summit, in Madrid. — AFP

THE job of organising diplomats into a global agreement on climate change went from hard to impossible this year for Patricia Espinosa.

This year’s event, known as COP26, was supposed to be a landmark for new commitments from countries aimed at keeping the world under the 2º Celsius warming limit set by the Paris climate agreement.