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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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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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No #YebInLima?

The 11th hour sacking of climate superstar Yeb Saño casts a pall over Lima as the UN climate negotiations kick off. The Philippine Climate Change Commissioner, and world famous icon of the climate movement Yeb Saño, has repo...
by Hamish McKenzie
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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: Gambling on INDCs

By refusing top-down assessments of intended climate change efforts, some countries are gambling with the future of our planet. Another clunky acronym was introduced into the negotiating process at the Warsaw climate conference...
by Cleo Verkuijl
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UN Climate Summit: The Most Important Developments

Though the UN Climate Summit last week brought no major agreements in the fight against climate change, it was widely considered a success.
by Tímea Fazekas
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Climate Poker

The vast majority of the world’s nations and citizens are gambling with the global climate – at stake is humanity’s well-being. But how real is the climate change threat, and who is really to blame? Let’s first deal...
by Kris Gravning
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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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Crisis In Darfur: Will Arresting The Sudanese President Change Anything?

Ever since 2003, the crisis in Darfur has grown consistently worse. At the moment, human rights activists are vehemently protesting for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and charges of genocide af...
by Bianca Facchinei
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