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Afghanistan excluded from COP28 as climate impacts

Afghanistan excluded from COP28 as climate impacts hit home

The logo of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28is pictured at Expo City in Dubai on December 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP

Humanitarian concerns have been raised over Afghanistan being left out of United Nations climate negotiations for a third year in a row, as the country grapples with worsening drought and floods.

Dozens of people were killed in Afghanistan, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, after heavy rains triggered flash floods that swept across drought-stricken land earlier this year.
But the country is absent from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, having been left out of such U.N. talks since the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021.

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