Editor's Picks: November 27th 2023

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  It's Monday, November the 27th, 2023.

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  I'm Alok Jha.

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  I'm normally found presenting Babbage, our weekly podcast on science and technology.

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  This is Editor's Picks,

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  where we'll bring you four highlights from the current edition of The Economist,

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  read aloud exclusively for subscribers.

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  We've got two cover stories this week.

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  One of them looks ahead to the COP28 climate summit and the other examines the United Arab Emirates.

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  the country in which the COP28 summit will be hosted.

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  COP28 is the latest in the annual rounds of climate change summits convened by the United Nations.

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  The meeting will be held in Dubai.

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  There,

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  governments will assess how much progress they've made since the Paris Agreement of 2015.

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  Our cover story in most of the world,

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  and the first article that we'll bring you on this show,

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  is our assessment of that progress.

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