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COP18: The morning after stock-take

It’s Saturday, noon, in Doha, Qatar on what is hopefully the last day of the UN climate change negotiations that were meant to finish on Friday. The only UNFCCC announcement reads “informal plenary – time to be announceme...

by Sophie Trevitt

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World Water Day – Palestine’s West Bank Running Dry

Another year has passed and 1 billion people in the world still don’t have access to clean water. The struggle for manhood’s most basic resource has earned a day in its honour. In the Middle East, specifically the Levant, w...

by Yara Al Wazir

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Talk Is Cheap: Can UN Climate Change Summit Turn Rhetoric Into Action?

The world holds its breath: protesters rally on the streets of New York ahead of Tuesday’s United Nations’ Climate Change Summit, 2014.

by Kamleshan Pillay

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Europe Hashes Out Climate Change Compromise

… and shows the world what to expect from the next round of global negotiations in Paris 2015. After the EU summit in Brussels this Thursday and Friday, European leaders struck a new deal on climate change and energy poli...

by Mathias Einberger

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Philanthropy Is Not The Solution: Bright Ideas Light Up Africa

1.6 billion people around the world live without reliable access to electricity. 600 million of those live in Africa. I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve heard an astonishing statistic like this. Everyday we’...

by Urban Times

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COP19: Australia won’t be missed

“If you are not at the table, you are probably on the menu,” said Erwin Jackson of The Climate Institute incapsulating the unusual move by the newly elected Australian government in not sending a minister to COP19. NGOs acr...

by Kahil Lloyd

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COP20: Article 6 and the changing world

Negotiations have already kicked off in Lima, but there is one Article of the convention that isn’t garnering much attention. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mande...

by Malcolm Johnson

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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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Climate Change: Infrastructure Losses and the Adaptation of Architecture

We need to do more than just stop, or turn around, global warming. Although doing that is possible, it’s also change that won’t happen overnight. Change that can happen a little more quickly is the change in archite...

by Allison Midori Reilly

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COP18: The morning after stock-take

World Water Day – Palestine’s West Bank Running Dry

Talk Is Cheap: Can UN Climate Change Summit Turn Rhetoric Into Action?

Europe Hashes Out Climate Change Compromise

Philanthropy Is Not The Solution: Bright Ideas Light Up Africa

COP19: Australia won’t be missed

COP20: Article 6 and the changing world

Humanizing REDD+: Focusing on the Rights of Indigenous Forest Communities

Climate Change: Infrastructure Losses and the Adaptation of Architecture

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