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From Washington Compost: 'Analysis: At COP26, climate inequality will meet vaccine inequality'

In the midst of a pandemic, countries are gathering to discuss how to deal with a wholly separate humanity-threatening crisis: Climate change.

But while COP26, a United Nations summit beginning in Glasgow, Scotland, next week will focus on environmental transformations, it can’t help but be informed by the changes wrought by covid-19 as well. Even at the most basic level, the logistics of the trip have been thrown into disarray by the pandemic.

But there are deeper, more alarming currents running between the two crises, too. For low- and middle-income nations, COP26 is taking place under the specter of a grossly unequal global rollout of vaccines. At the conference, many of these same nations will be asked to make significant commitments to fight climate change by wealthier nations, even if they contributed relatively little to the problem.

The juxtaposition will be jarring. Though wealthy nations had pledged to help poorer nations get vaccinated, so far those promises are mostly unfulfilled.