World leaders in New York to grapple with climate. Fuel prices, AI and disasters complicate things
NEW YORK (AP) — World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and catastrophic Nepal flood. Every year as top government officials come to the...
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