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A win would potentially mean the New Zealand government will be forced to go back to the drawing board and come up with more ambitious climate targets. Along with similar lawsuits, it will set a bar for the type of action that developed countries must take to prevent dangerous climate change. Sarah

Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Featured , Sustainable Development / 06/16/2017

Climate impacts hit 750 million South Asians over 10 years

Joydeep Gupta A new study looks at five major impacts of climate change, the sectors and the people most vulnerable. Almost 750 million people in South Asia were affected by floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, heat waves and sea-level rise — all impacts of climate change or worsened by it — in

Climate , Energy , Sustainable Development / 06/08/2017

Clean energy for green environment

M Zakir Hossain Khan and Sifat E Rabb Clean energy will ensure the achievement of SDG 3 that has emphasised on ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being by reducing the public health damages caused by coal “The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we ca

Climate , Sustainable Development / 05/18/2017

Bonn talks reveal uncertainty over Paris Agreement

Susanne Götze and Christian Mihatsch While diplomats in Bonn work on the operating manual for the Paris Agreement, Washington ponders withdrawing from climate action Climate negotiations are a highly complex undertaking with one simplifying factor that everything happens in one place. But for the

Climate , Data & Reports , Gender , Sustainable Development / 05/13/2017

Study reveals the gender gap in Tanzania, Uganda climate policies

Mariola Acosta Francés, Edidah Lubega Ampaire & Laurence Jassogne A recent study by the World Bank concluded that closing the gender gap in agriculture would increase Tanzania’s GDP by $105 million and Uganda’s by $67 million. Climate change is negatively affecting many regions of the wor

Climate , Data & Reports , Featured / 04/21/2017

Insurgency, Terrorism and Organised Crime in a Warming Climate: A new report warns

Lukas Ruttinger As the climate changes, so too do the conditions in which non-state armed groups operate. The complex risks presented by conflicts, climate change and increasingly fragile geophysical and socio-political conditions can contribute to the emergence and growth of non-state armed groups.

Climate , Food , Sustainable Development / 04/04/2017

The Carbon Footprint of a Cheeseburger

A cheeseburger has the same emissions as about 1/2 a gallon of gasoline. While there are carbon calculators that help you to determine how much carbon emissions are created by your consumption, they just look at all of the emissions that you use directly. They don’t help you to understand h

Climate , Data & Reports , Water / 03/10/2017

Climate change drives up river salinity in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta Already facing increasing river salinity due to climate change, parts of coastal Bangladesh could become zones of poverty with limited freshwater available in rivers It has been established by now that coastal Bangladesh is being seriously affected by climate change. It is now imper

Climate , SDGs / 03/09/2017

Effective climate adaptation requires effective financing

Developed countries claimed that, altogether, around $33bn have been disbursed during 2014-2016 but overall disbursement rates remain relatively low The world has been struggling against three “V”s or vulnerabilities to climate change, corruption and conflicts (four “C”s). However, before

Climate , Energy , Opinions , Sustainable Development / 01/20/2017

How renewable energy advocates are hurting the climate cause

Paul McDivitt Confused coverage of renewable energy statistics popping up in social media feeds and on news outlets have come to be trusted. On top of that, most social media sharers never even read the articles they share. In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, the proliferation of misinfor

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