Let climate change mitigation policies be fair to both rich and poor countries

Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a Fridays for Future march during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain in November 5, 2021. [Reuters, Russell Cheyne]

As we saw last year at COP 26 in Glasgow, international imbalances of the climate crisis are coming to the fore. Responsibility for preventing catastrophe is falling disproportionately on the lower income countries that did least to cause it and are least able to bear the cost.