Starting COP26 on Halloween, a festival for the dead doesn't give much hope

It's Halloween, a tradition that I didn't know as a child growing up in the Netherlands. Instead, I always associate it with North America, where families change their suburbian front yards into haunted graveyards, some complete with bloody body parts, gravestones, and lots of spider webs.

Halloween decorations in Ottawa (photo: Alexander Verbeek)

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