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COP18: The curious case of intergenerational justice

Imagine if world leaders were to age in reverse. Imagine if they were born with the physical maladies of an 85-year-old. Imagine it they were just like Benjamin Buttons, Brad Pitt’s title role in The Curious Case of Benjami...
by Beatrice Yeung
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Enhanced Economic Growth of BRICS = Increased Emissions & Climate Change

The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) Summit held in Durban draws to a conclusion today. The one issue that has not been discussed at this forum is the need to reduce emissions, something which the BRICS cou...
by Kamleshan Pillay
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WATCH: Drones For Trees

With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
by Conor Sullivan
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COP18: Brazil deforestation highs and lows

Yesterday, the Brazilian Government announced that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest had hit a record low. Brazil has come a long way since deforestation peaked in 2004, at which time twenty percent of the Amazon rainfores...
by Sophie Trevitt
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WATCH: The World’s Oceans Put Into Perspective

Despite some rather condescending commentary from Scott Gass this short clip provides some astonishing insights into the sheer size of the waters that cover the majority of our planet. The fact which most impressed me is that t...
by Callum Henderson
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COP18: Doha Briefs – Pulling off the blinders

Ambition has been the buzzword of late at COP18, and this is especially with regards to finance and cutting down of Green House Gas emissions. Ambition Lacks There has been a constant outcry by the least developing countries a...
by Kennedy Mbeva
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COP18: The morning after stock-take

It’s Saturday, noon, in Doha, Qatar on what is hopefully the last day of the UN climate change negotiations that were meant to finish on Friday. The only UNFCCC announcement reads “informal plenary – time to be announceme...
by Sophie Trevitt
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COP20: …And so it begins

Yesterday saw the start of the latest round of the UN climate talks, COP20, in Lima, Perú with traditional outgoing remarks from the former Polish COP19 President Korolec and a welcome from Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the incoming Pr...
by Evan Weber
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The State of Water: Ethiopia

Water is the greatest necessity in life; however, consumption of contaminated water is one of the biggest killers in the world. Ethiopia, situated in horn of Africa, a region prone to droughts and subsequent famine, faces acute...
by Daniel Wasonga
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