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10 Ways to Push the Climate Change and Conflict Agenda, Despite the Deniers

February 19, 2019

THE HAGUE — It is now well documented that global warming is a multiplier of insecurity and conflict, but holding debates on the topic presents ever-more complex challenges as multilateralism and climate change are increasingly questioned if not dismissed by some of the world’s top leaders and biggest polluting nations. In that light, here …

Climate and Environment, WORLDVIEWS

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Climate Talks Bypass the Poorest, Who Endure Polluted Homes

December 18, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

Today and every day around the world, in bleak rural villages and the poorest urban neighborhoods, millions of people are igniting small fires to cook their meager meals, brighten dark homes or scare away intruders at night. The number of people using small fires is not small. Climate scientists estimate that three billion people …

Africa, Asia, Climate and Environment

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As UN Climate Talks Convene, the Earth Veers Toward Catastrophe

November 2, 2017

by Franz Baumann

Two years ago, the governments of the world unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a remarkable blueprint of the world’s most pressing long-term predicaments that the United Nations is good at lifting into the global conscience. Cataloguing 17 goals and 169 targets, the agenda contains an inventory of the remedial activities that …

Climate and Environment, WORLDVIEWS

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10 Ways to Push the Climate Change and Conflict Agenda, Despite the Deniers

Climate Talks Bypass the Poorest, Who Endure Polluted Homes

As UN Climate Talks Convene, the Earth Veers Toward Catastrophe

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