Things can change disturbingly quickly – just ask the people who once farmed the Sahara.
Severe floods in Chennai. How should developing countries hold richer countries to financial commitments to adapt to climate change?
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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.
The games begin: satirising Christmas consumerism outside a French shopping centre.
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The global activist escapades that make up the Climate Games remind us that climate politics isn’t just confined to the United Nations summit in Paris.
It can be hard to know how best to adapt to climate change.
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Projects to help people adapt to climate change are essential. But no one really knows how much to spend, or even how to tell which projects are working.
A majority of countries want visionary action rather than pragmatism at the Paris climate talks, says the International Institute for Environment and Development’s Saleemul Huq.
Should goods from high-carbon countries be hit with an import tax?
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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.
Engie’s renewable energy installation outside the Paris climate conference.
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Despite robust global economic growth over the past two years, worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuels grew very little in 2014, and might even fall this year.
Planting trees is one way to pull carbon out of the atmosphere – but is limited if it competes with food production.
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