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The latest UN climate talks were ultimately hindered by their focus on nation-states, obscuring who is actually responsible for emissions.
The movement to kickstart a radical transformation of our society has begun. For the sake of our children – and their children – it must succeed.
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
Global warming will be most noticeable where the weather doesn’t normally vary much, such as the tropics. But these places are also home to many of the world’s poorest and least culpable nations.
After a long run of devastating typhoons, one country is holding the world’s biggest corporations to account on climate change.
Five years after Superstorm Sandy, we see how disadvantaged social groups suffered more from the storm before and after – much as we’re seeing in Hurricanes Harvey and Maria.
If resilience efforts don’t consider justice issues, they will end up making those who are the most in need the least resilient.
A Native American scholar explains why so little has changed despite the apparent victory of protesters opposing the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
What is the months-long North Dakota Access Pipeline protest really about? A Native American scholar connects the dots to environmental justice and the legacy of U.S. colonialism.
A philosopher of ‘procreation ethics’ at the center of a controversy over having kids explains why we can’t ignore the population question in an era of climate change.
Climate justice is becoming an increasingly important part of climate action.
The burden of mitigating and adapting to climate change must be shared between all parts of society.
Protesters could be tempted to add ‘criminal damage’ to trespass, thereby ensuring a more sympathetic trial by jury.
Environmental campaigners have employed an argument that they were forced into ‘illegal’ action but judges are still not buying it.
The Paris Agreement will leave activists demanding direct action on fossil fuels and energy market reform.
1.5 or 2 degrees? What matters is how we get there.
How to ensure rich countries will live up to their promises of money and carbon emissions cuts? Developing countries need to look to the Allies’ unified strategy in World War II.
A narrow debate of what countries should pay to respond to climate change obscures a bigger moral discussion that touches on economics, ethics and people’s relationship to the natural world.
A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
Top contributors
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Director Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Bradford
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Assistant Professor of Institutional Dynamics in Sustainability, Utrecht University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Professor of Dryland Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Director, Glasgow University Media Group, University of Glasgow
