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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “My generation betrayed Greta Thunberg's.”The words are of Pete Betts, “a legend of climate diplomacy and of the United Nations Climate Conferences”, as Simon Sharpe, a former British civil servant, defined him in his recent book Five Times Faster.  Whereas Betts was the UK Government's International Director for Climate and Energy for ten years, lead negotiator at COPs for the European Union and for the United Kingdom at the United Nations on climate, and has managed international climate finance for a worth approximately 3.5 billion euros, his words are more than a bitter personal observation, they are a political message that calls the international community into question.They almost sound like an admission of the collective failure of a generation of political leaders, journalists and social partners, incapable of grasping the crucial importance of...