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WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?

Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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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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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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COP20: Day two sees things heat up

It was another hot day at Cuartel General del Ejército, the military barracks where this years COP is being held. Due to a last minute venue change, many of the buildings on site have been constructed in the past six weeks and...
by Evan Weber
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Weekly News Roundup: 26 May-1 June 2014

Politics EU Elections Update ‘EU elections have turned out to be what most experts expected. There was a sharp shift to the right, with many far-right parties securing extraordinary parts of the vote, some even winning the e...
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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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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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Obama, Climate Change, and the Keystone XL Pipeline

There is growing pressure on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline extension, which, when complete, will transport crude oil from tar sands in Alberta down to various refineries in the United States. On February ...
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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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