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Why This is A Very Big Week for Climate Diplomacy

Earth Day Week 2021 is a significant moment for climate diplomacy. Two key events: the release of the United States’ national carbon emissions reduction plan and the Climate Leaders Summit, hosted by President Biden, have the potential to invigorate international...

Sustainable Finance for Peace and Climate Security | Climate Security Series – Taped Live

This episode is part three of a six-part series examining the relationship between climate and security, produced in partnership with CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural innovation network. This episode was taped live in front of a virtual audience and...

“The rising sea is coming up to our doorstep every day and every night”

As sea water encroached closer and closer to Kelepi Saukitoga’s family home over the years, he knew something was wrong. His family lives in the remote village of Narikoso – part of the Pacific island archipelago of Fiji – where...

The Inside Story of How the World Closed the Hole in the Ozone Layer

The year is 1985. Ronald Reagan is president. Margaret Thatcher is prime minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Jackson, White Snake and George Michael are dominating the billboard charts. Back to the Future is a smash hit at the...

A Paris Agreement for the Shipping Industry

The UN agency that oversees shipping, the International Maritime Organization, adopted its first-ever deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last week. On Friday, the IMO, which has more than 170 member nations, announced that it would oversee efforts by shipping companies to reduce...

Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning)

In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and would be followed by...

Map of the Day: Where Investment in Renewables is Booming

Today’s map comes from a new UN-backed report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018. As the name suggests the report, which was a joint effort of the United Nations Environment Program and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, examined investment patterns in...

For the first time, an International Treaty to Protect Environmental Activists

In many Latin American countries, environmental protests can be a matter of life and death for the activists involved. In a tally put out last year, the non-profit Global Witness reported that 200 people had been murdered in 2016 defending...

PODCAST: Anote Tong is the former President of Kiribati, an island nation threatened by the rising seas

To the people of Kiribati, climate change is an existential threat. This is an Island nation in the pacific — it is a string of atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It has a population of about 100,000 and...

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