If you ever feel that the steps you can take to reduce climate change have insignificant consequences compared to that of multinational corporations then the following facts will put things into perspective. Seemingly mundane...
Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...
If 2014 was an historic year for climate change, where the world dug deeper into its resolve not to collectively fight it. Yet despite the worsening snowstorms and stranded polar bears, more extreme climate activity, and the pa...
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...
“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...
Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions about Africa is that up until a few years ago, measures to tackle climate change within the continent were non-existent. Africa didn’t have environmental protection laws, right? Wrong...
With the world’s eyes on next year’s climate change conference in Paris, many are looking to Lima for action. Earlier this week the 20th round of the annual UN climate change conference (COP20) has begun in Lima, Perú and...
In October of last year, the debate over environmental migration spiked as Kiribati islander Ioane Teitiota appealed to New Zealand’s courts to recognise him as the first climate change refugee. In late November, the courts r...
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...