AC Selects: The road to COP26 and American stories inside Kabul - Atlantic Council

Week of October 31, 2021

The Global Energy Center invites distinguished speakers to discuss how the UAE is pioneering investments in low-carbon solutions at home and abroad and working to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. In addition, insights and perspectives from an American journalist reporting her firsthand accounts of Afghanistan in the past few months.

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