Workarounds have shielded most Americans from the government shutdown鈥檚 effects, but program interruptions might soon test public patience and political will.
Clayton Collins
Welcome to your Saturday Daily.
As examples of 鈥渓iving with contradictions鈥 go, this one would appear to be a doozy: Signatories of the United Nations framework on climate change will burn literally tons of jet fuel to get to Bel茅m, Brazil, and the gateway to the Amazon. This is not a one-off. Big climate confabs have increasingly become climate-unfriendly affairs, our Rio de Janeiro-based reporter explains, even if the work they support matters.
Her story is a quick, smart read to end a week in which the U.N. said the world has effectively missed a target of holding global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels; Bill Gates made a case for a position between the poles of alarmism and denial on climate, stressing ; and new data from Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute pointed to the outsize contribution to emissions of the wealthiest 0.1%. Lots to talk about in Bel茅m.
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Also: If you missed Monday鈥檚 audio interview with Taylor Luck by our editor, here it is again as a 鈥淲hy We Wrote This鈥 episode, with bonus material: excerpts from Taylor鈥檚 earlier appearances.