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Class & Climate: The COP Folly with Martin Empson

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The UK-based climate activist and writer explains how the Conferences of Parties have bureaucratized climate organizing.

Martin Empson is a climate activist from the UK and the editor and a contributor to System Change not Climate Change, a book of essays from socialists around the world on the nature of capitalism's ecological crisis and the radical response that is needed.

On this eighth episode of Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy, the Green Economy Network's national convenor Em Thompson sits down with Martin Empson to reveal how COPs (Conferences of Parties) have bureaucratized climate organizing.

Class & Climate is a podcast series from Perspectives Journal and the Green Economy Network that maps how climate action can deliver jobs and long-term affordability for workers—while debunking myths that these goals are a zero-sum trade-off with a clean environment.

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