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Privatizing Climate Protection?
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres Yesterday marked the official beginning of UN Week in New York City. This flurry of high-level diplomatic...
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Dancing in the Dark: The Danger of Letting Business Lead on Climate Protection
Your move, Richard In a candid session on energy and the environment at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday, the world’s lead climate negotiator Christiana Figueres explained why her organization,...
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American Consumers Aren’t Buying Climate Action
Earlier this week at the Clinton Global Initiative, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres offered her assessment of what was preventing progress in the international negotiations. Yesterday, a few...
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With only days remaining until diplomats are due to arrive in Tianjin for the final round of climate negotiations before the Cancun summit, scientists have provided a grim reminder of how little...
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With all the high-level meetings, heads of state speeches and commitments during a busy UN week in New York City, one announcement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stands out: the creation of the...
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Mekong Delta Blues: How a Dam Project in Laos Could Have Serious...
(Phnom Phen, Cambodia) – The mighty Mekong River spanning Southeast Asia has won reprieve from a planned $3.8 billion hydro-electric dam project in Laos — for now. Meeting in Northern Cambodia last...
View ArticleWhy There is Much to Celebrate this World Water Week
Yesterday, the 2012 World Water Week began. This annual conference in Stockholm, Sweden is the planet’s largest gathering of water-related scientists, managers, NGO leaders, and multilateral...
View ArticleVIDEO: There is more plastic in the sea, than stars in the galaxy
Those microbeads in your face wash are bad news. The United Nations warned this week that more than eight million metric tons of plastic end up in oceans each year,”wreaking marine wildlife, fisheries...
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These Two New Studies Show that Our Oceans are Basically Doomed (Unless…)
Climate change is beginning to affect the lives of communities around the word. With temperature records being broken, yearly, monthly and daily, severe droughts imperiling food systems and bizarre...
View ArticleYoung People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect...
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...
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