If we fail to balance the social impacts of climate change with responsible climate action, we risk substituting one kind of harm for another – and this would be a disaster of another kind.
The pledge to end deforestation holds great potential, but Canada has some work ahead if it is to make meaningful progress on the new goal and stop ongoing forest and carbon loss.
More than 100 nations have pledged to end deforestation by 2030. But there’s no mention of the need for Indigenous people to give their prior informed consent.
Artists do more than tell us there’s a problem. They can add nuance to the complex web of interconnected issues we face and tell stories about loss, possibility and transformation.
African countries have faced dangerous droughts, storms and heat waves while contributing little to climate change.
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What really matters is domestic policy; if countries don’t change what they’re doing at home to bring fossil fuels emissions to zero and restore degraded lands, such declarations are meaningless.
Boris Johnson, Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden led the pledge to cut methane emissions.
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Many scientists now think 3°C of warming is likely.
Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest and a notable absence in previous deforestation agreements, has signed this time.
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World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
The effects of climate change are heightened in urban areas and impose a high financial burden to the municipalities.
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Shoreline communities are already faltering under the weight of billions of dollars in damages — and worrying that climate change will continue to make things even worse.
The energy transition is already underway.
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A simplistic ‘all livestock are bad’ narrative is promoted by campaigners, celebrities, philanthropists and policymakers alike. A much more sophisticated debate is needed.
We discovered that the 12 largest petrochemical companies announced 88 new projects between 2012 and 2019: new and expanded facilities that will likely operate for decades, ramping up carbon emissions.