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COP18: Climate change and conflict – The youth constituency

The nexus… It is really hard to talk about climate change without mentioning conflict. So where is the nexus? It’s pretty easy to see the connection. See, climate change manifests itself through the effects and events that ...
by Rubin Makomere
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COP18: Doha Briefs – Approaching the end

It is late, very late, and the convention centre is emptying up pretty quickly. There are only a handful of us here still churning out the last snippets of energy for the day. There have been a couple of issues that still have ...
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COP18: Doha Briefs – Common accounting mechanism and the status quo games

Us against them? It had just hit 2am in Doha and everybody was looking at each other with a wee bit of anger. Everyone was tired, obviously. Mugs of coffee were scattered all over the table. Thus far the negotiations have centr...
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Humanizing REDD+: Focusing on the Rights of Indigenous Forest Communities

Protesters gather outside a Governors Climate and Forest Task Force (GCF) meeting in Chiapas lamenting against the UN programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing counties (REDD). Chant...
by Rubin Makomere
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