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COP19: Intellectual property rights with Pachauri

In an interview with The Verb, Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has called for greater collaboration between organisations from all over the world in the development of new...
by Michael Mazengarb
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COP19: Can COP19 be the stepping stone to success in Paris?

The 11th of November marks the commencement of the 19th Conference of Parties session to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 9th session of members to the Kyoto Protocol. The COP moves to ...
by Kamleshan Pillay
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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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COP19: The hungry pangs of climate finance come calling

Just the way we cannot stand to see a hungry child cry for food, we are faced with a situation where there has been a prolonged cry to fill up the belly of a severely malnourished component in tackling climate change, this bein...
by Amanda Asiago
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COP19: Day One

The tragedy in South East Asia was fore in the minds of those at COP19. Parties offered sympathy and solidarity at the first plenary session. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that the typhoon is the most rece...
by Kahil Lloyd
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Humanizing REDD+: Focusing on the Rights of Indigenous Forest Communities

Protesters gather outside a Governors Climate and Forest Task Force (GCF) meeting in Chiapas lamenting against the UN programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing counties (REDD). Chant...
by Rubin Makomere
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The cost of carbon? Your life.

How Global Warming Negatively Affects Your Health and Life Expectancy Over 400,000 people worldwide die every year from climate change. Most of those deaths are from hunger and communicable diseases, but this figure also includ...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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