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What Happens When You Can’t Build Back? Addressing Climate Change Loss and Damage
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The world is entering a new phase of climate change defined by “failure to mitigate sufficiently and failure to adapt sufficiently,” said Saleemul Huq, director of the Bangladesh-based International Center for Climate Change and Development, at the Wilson Center on March 16. [Video Below]
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Susan Martin: Migration a Climate Adaptation Strategy, But Displacement More Dangerous
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When it comes to environmental change, “policies and laws can have a very productive contribution toward positive adaptation, or they can subvert that and constrain options,” says Jon Unruh, associate professor of human geography and international development at McGill University, in this week’s podcast. -
Creating a Water Ready World
›March 22, 2016 // By Sherri GoodmanSitting at my desk looking at bills to be paid, the first one on the stack is for the water company, emblazoned with the phrase, “Water is Life.” Yes, we all know that. But really, as my teenagers would say, “Duh, Mom. So what?”
Well, here’s the “so what” on this World Water Day 2016.
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Adapting to Climate Change in Cities May Require a Major Rethink
›Around the world, urbanization and climate change are transforming societies and environments, and the stakes could not be higher for the poor and marginalized. The 2015 UN climate conference in Paris (COP-21) highlighted the need for coordinated action to address the profound injustice of the world’s most disadvantaged people bearing the greatest costs of climate impacts. Among those at the COP were mayors from around the world advocating for the important role of cities in these efforts.
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Climate Compensation: How Loss and Damage Fared in the Paris Agreement
›The agreement coming out of the COP-21 negotiations gave breakthrough recognition to the concept of “loss and damage,” sorting through thorny discussions and politically charged negotiating positions. These positions revolved around liability and compensation, which developing countries called for but developed countries were unwilling to have included in the agreement.
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Modi’s Grand Plan to Divert Himalayan Rivers Faces Obstacles
›One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first priorities after winning an overwhelming victory last year on a platform of development and growth is to fast-track a decades-old plan to link India’s rivers.
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John Wihbey, Yale Climate Connections
Nuancing “Climate Refugee” Language and Images
›December 18, 2015 // By Wilson Center StaffMigrants and Syrian refugees have become the new “stranded polar bear” of climate change imagery. But most such impacts will seldom be so dramatic or camera-ready.
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Islands in Paris: New Climate Deal Gives Some Recognition to Humanity’s Truth Bearers
›December 16, 2015 // By Roger-Mark De SouzaThe new climate deal coming out of Paris commits governments to hold the rise in average global temperatures to “well below” two degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels. An important dimension of this agreement calls for subsequent work on limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees. This is an important win for islands and other low-lying countries, and for humanity.
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When it comes to environmental change, “policies and laws can have a very productive contribution toward positive adaptation, or they can subvert that and constrain options,” says Jon Unruh, associate professor of human geography and international development at McGill University, in this week’s podcast.
