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This year’s United Nations’ Climate Change Conference - or COP-28 - is kicking off on Thursday. Dubai - in the United Arab Emirates - is hosting the proceedings, where nations from around the world will debate and negotiate climate change-related policies.

Professor Sumudu Atapattu is the Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at UW-Madison Law School. She’ll be attending the conference, focusing on the relationship between human rights and the climate. She spoke to WORT News Producer Faye Parks earlier this afternoon.

Image courtesy: United States Department of State via their website.