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Copenhagen Tries To Stop Wasting So Much Food

Copenhagen is already pretty good at being sustainable. It’s trying to become the first carbon-neutral capital city. It’s great for cycling. Now it is turning its attention to food waste. The amount of food wasted in th...

by Kieran Toms

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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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It Never Rains In Central Asia, But When It Does, It Pours

On May 30-31st torrential rainstorms caused chaos on Kazakhstan’s Almaty, Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek. While damage was mostly limited to floating cars and flooded houses, for Kyrgyzstan the...

by Global Voices

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Too Big to Succeed? A Critical Look at the Financing of Dams in Africa

“There can be no prosperity without infrastructure, but infrastructure projects don’t necessarily benefit the poor.” Those are the opening remarks of a report recently released by International Rivers entitled, Infrastru...

by Ruth Nyambura

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COP18: When did we stop caring?

Every year, there’s a new round of climate change negotiations. Another meeting where we fail to set emissions that will prevent catastrophic climate change. And the global community seems to care less about nothing happening...

by Jeremiah Brown

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Climate Justice For Indigenous Peoples

Climate change and its heightening impacts have been the center of domestic and international talk for decades. Its irreversible impacts on indigenous communities have both pushed for greater attention from governments and nong...

by Helen Hawgood

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Innovative Thinking: A Plastic Bottle Can Change The World

A revolution of its own kind began in the Philippines in April 2011. In homes in Manila’s poorest district, there was no way of telling whether it was day or night.Despite the sun shining in all its glory outside, the sma...

by Priyanka Mogul

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Entering a new age in the relationship between humans and ecosystems

The year 2015 will be punctuated by a flurry of major international conferences. Three of these conferences are of great importance: the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will be held in June in...

by Kennedy Mbeva

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COP20: An equitable understanding

Fairness and justice tend to be what comes to mind when asked for a definition of equity, a term that has haunted the discourse of climate conferences for years. Outright refusal of an agreement that is “equitable” is unhea...

by Malcolm Johnson

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Copenhagen Tries To Stop Wasting So Much Food

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

It Never Rains In Central Asia, But When It Does, It Pours

Too Big to Succeed? A Critical Look at the Financing of Dams in Africa

COP18: When did we stop caring?

Climate Justice For Indigenous Peoples

Innovative Thinking: A Plastic Bottle Can Change The World

Entering a new age in the relationship between humans and ecosystems

COP20: An equitable understanding

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