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Lolwah Al-Khater and Brian Finlay

Lolwah Al-Khater is assistant foreign minister at the ministry of foreign affairs of the state of Qatar and an executive director of the Doha Forum. Brian Finlay is president and chief executive of the Stimson Centre.

People walk with buckets while looking for a tap with running water in Zwelitsha, an informal settlement in Khayelitsha that is home to millions of people in mostly impoverished circumstances, near Cape Town on February 24, 2022. – It’s been four years since South Africa’s tourist capital nearly ran dry, during a drought that left the city limping towards a “Day Zero” when all the pipes would empty.
Now water flows liberally, but not for everyone.
The City of Cape Town estimates that about 31 neighbourhoods have no access to clean water.
That includes sprawling districts filled with shacks, but also working-class neighbourhoods. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

CLIMATE CHANGE

22 MAR 2022

The global resolve to fight Covid shows we can do the same for climate change

The way in which countries worked together and marshalled resources to address the pandemic shows that big challenges can be addressed if there is political will

Lolwah Al-Khater and Brian Finlay

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