Haiti is extremely vulnerable to climate change. It is also very poor. International donors have stepped in to help the country fund climate mitigation, but is the money going where it's most needed?
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The UN climate talks are being held in a nation dominated by cheap coal.
We are on track to reach 1.5°C of global warming within 16 years according to new data.
The $4 billion that foundations are pledging to spend within five years amounts to less than 1 percent of what businesses and governments spend on global warming every year.
The results of a study that measured public responses to a policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions contradict a common environmental concern.
Donald Trump claims his administration has carried out an "all-out effort" in preparing for the effects of climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It's a good thing that cities aspire to lead the way in acting on climate change in the absence of stronger national action. But a closer look reveals the limitations of current city-based efforts.
International problems and local policies are integrally interwoven, whether the nationalists in Washington like it or not.
Talk of adapting to climate change is less polarizing to conservatives than the idea of slashing emissions.
Future population growth is expected to take place almost entirely in cities. We won't fight climate change without them.
Lee: 'Business will be far from usual in a world of four, five or six degrees of warming.'
Green and cool (reflective) roofs are effective tools for cooling overheated cities. Research in Chicago shows that their impacts depend on local conditions, so planners should site them carefully.
Despite the fanfare of signing the Paris Agreement on climate, little progress has been made on compensating poor countries for irreparable damages from climate change.
The Paris Agreement marks an important step towards climate change mitigation – one in which developed and developing countries alike take action.
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Associate Professor, Asian Institute of Technology
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Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer, St Petersburg State University
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Leader of ECI Climate Research Programme, University of Oxford
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Professor, School of Policy Studies, Rikkyo University
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Research Associate, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor of Environment and Development, University of Reading
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Emeritus professor, University of Virginia
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Specially Appointed Professor, Center for the Study of Co*Design, Osaka University
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Postdoctoral researcher, SOAS, University of London
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Professeur émérite, Université Grenoble Alpes
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Directrice de recherche CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Professor at the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Research & Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, American University School of International Service
