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Thanks to Vanuatu, a vote at the next UN General Assembly could open the floodgates to international climate litigation.
At the start of the cyclone season in the Pacific, weather forecasters are changing their warnings to focus less on weather information and more on the damage expected from an impending storm.
The country has built a fairly good reputation for well-functioning, democratic governance.
Even before the British billionaire invested US$1 billion in making the region ‘climate-smart,’ Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica were pioneering a renewable energy boom in the Caribbean.
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?
Due to rising sea levels, low-lying island nations are in immediate danger. If drastic measures are taken, this disastrous trend can be transformed into an opportunity for sustainable development.
International tourism is a booming business, with tourists spending US$1.4 trillion each year. Who’s benefiting from this outlay of cash?
A new study finds that even in best-case scenarios, the fishing communities most hurt by climate change are on small island nations such as Kiribati, the Solomon Islands and the Maldives.
Negotiations regarding a legal framework for the oceans – an area covering roughly half the Earth’s surface – are being dominated by OECD members.
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Research Fellow in Ocean Management, Stockholm University
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Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, University of the West of England
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Senior Lecturer in Renewable Energy & Energy Management, Coventry University
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Senior Fellow in Science, Technology & Economics at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Associate Research Fellow in RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Posdoctoral Researcher in Local Energy Systems, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Hazard and Risk Management Researcher, GNS Science
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DPhil Student, University of Oxford
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Co-director, Caribbean Resilience and Recovery Knowledge Network, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Sheffield
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Visiting Research Fellow, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
