When we talk about climate change, we talk about the science, the economy, the financing. The last 20 years of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations … Continue reading Putting humans at the center of the climate conversation
Whether the world’s vulnerable countries should be compensated for loss and damage from extreme events by rich ones mostly responsible for greenhouse gas-caused climate change has taken center stage as … Continue reading Loss and Damage: Climate Change’s Latest Byword
BONN, Germany – All roads lead to Paris in December to ensure that every country will act on climate change. The Conference of Parties (COP) 21 is expected to come … Continue reading How the Paris climate deal can save lives
BONN, Sep 5 2015 (IPS) – December 2015 will define the course of humanity’s survival at the crunch U.N. climate conference in Paris, known in technical jargon as the 21st … Continue reading Paris Will Be Make or Break for the Planet
BONN, Sep 2 2015 (IPS) – After surviving the storm surge wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in November 2013, women in evacuation centres found themselves again fighting for … Continue reading Women in the Face of Climate Change
The Conference of Parties (COP) 21, a yearly conference of countries that tackle climate change, is happening in less than 100 days in Paris and countries are preparing for what … Continue reading What Paris means for every Filipino
“Are you really walking all the way to Tacloban?” a woman in her 60s asked me as I was waiting inside the St. Peter and Paul cathedral. I was in … Continue reading Philippines is excluding vulnerable voices from climate consultation
There is no point denying it: climate has changed. We experience it in our everyday lives — the heat has become unbearable and strong typhoons have extended their stay in … Continue reading Our love affair with coal: Why can’t we call it quits
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