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The Just Transition Mechanism agreed at the latest UN Climate Conference is a chance – perhaps our last – to prove that climate action can be ambitious and, lest we forget, human, writes Jodi-Ann Wang in this commentary for the Just Transtion Finance Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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