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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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Ocean Acidification: A Sea Of Problems

When we hear ‘climate change’, the images conjured up all fall along a similar theme: oil pumpers, emissions coming out of an industry factory, ice melting in the Arctic… All well above the water. But what really happens ...
by Alexis McGivern
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Maybe Hollywood Does Get It: A Year In Climate Change Cinema

In The Atlantic, Noah Gittell recently argued that Hollywood is dropping the ball on climate change. Pointing out the lack of explicit acknowledgement in Interstellar, Gittell went on to suggest that Hollywood keeps getting t...
by Chris Round
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COP20: A five minute history of climate politics

Today begins the UNFCCC’s COP20 which, since the failure of the Copenhagen Accord, will build on the Durban Platform which follows the Bali Roadmap and the Warsaw Outcomes to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Overwhelmed? Fair enou...
by Hamish McKenzie
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Climate Summits Under the Auspices of Corporations

This week another annual climate summit begins. The media, as usual, do not show much interest in this issue; the issue that is already changing the quality of life of millions. Sometimes, it is incomprehensible why the leaders...
by Lívia Magdošková
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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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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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COP18: Stop blaming civil society

With just hours to go until the resolution of the UN climate change negotiations, everyone is playing the blame game. While is is looking unlikely that some of the key issues around the transition towards the highly anticipated...
by Sophie Trevitt
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IPF Launches “IPF Green”

As it stands, global warming has reached 0.8 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. Since 1955, it is estimated that about 90% of the excess heat energy trapped by the increased green house gas (GHG) concentrations have...
by Natasha Lipman
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