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An activist protests while G-20 climate and environment ministers hold a meeting in Naples, Italy, on July 22, 2021.
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(FINANCIAL TIMES) - Recently, the United Nations made an announcement that prompted a biting put-down from a climate journalist named Megan Darby.
"Ban the UN from naming things. I'm serious," she wrote, after the launch of the anti-greenwashing unit that the UN called the "High Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities", or HLEG for short.
