Sadiq Khan says: ‘We are united by something far more fundamental, our belief in the power of politics to change people’s lives for the better’
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hile the soon-to-be first Muslim mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, was in the final throes of his mayoral campaign on a brisk day in New York, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim of mayor of London, was wrapping up a two-day climate summit in a steamy if overcast Rio de Janeiro.
“Hope is not gone,” Khan told the 300 city mayors gathered in the Brazilian city’s museum of modern art.
The London mayor was referring to the challenges faced by regional politicians in dealing with the climate emergency in the face of the scepticism or outright denial of the science by national governments – including that led by Donald Trump.
