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Fast For Climate Justice

Typhoon Haiyan served as a stark reminder to delegates at the UN climate change negotiations in Warsaw, Poland last year. It also spurred a chain of fasting for climate justice. Last year Yeb Saño, lead delegate for the Filipi...
by Ayesha Constable
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Information Revolution And Climate Action: A Marriage With A Promise?

On September 23, 2014, as world leaders, corporations and other actors at the UN New York headquarters gave pledges on how they plan to address the challenge of climate change, climate-oriented blogs and social media platforms...
by Kennedy Mbeva
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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...
by Rubin Makomere
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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...
by Tithe Farhana
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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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WATCH: Climate Change Has Hit Home. Literally.

Over 30 million displaced by weather-related events in 2012 Climate refugees aren’t a phenomenon of the future. It’s a catastrophe happening right now. Floods, storms and earthquakes forced 32.4 million people globa...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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WATCH: Climate Change Explained

Global climate change is an issue which has haunted much of the industrialised world for the last decade. Almost all scientists, politicians, and people in general acknowledge industrialised nations’ culpability for the d...
by Conor Sullivan
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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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World Food Day: The Cost Of Meat

The devastating effects of mass meat production and how the increasing demand for meat has changed the world. Most people love meat and they always have, especially in Europe, meat can be found on consumers plates on a daily ba...
by Nane Steinhoff
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