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At a time when Europe faces existential risks in the form of climate change and geopolitical competition, an over-cautious application of technical rules risks missing the bigger picture.
The reality of a warming climate coupled with increasing urbanization means that extreme disasters aren’t rare anymore.
To understand the virtual water trade, let’s start with cows. In recent years, public attention and anger has grown over the way water in the rapidly drying Colorado River Basin is used to grow food for cattle, whose emissions are driving climate change, which is exacerbating this drought in the first place.
Political science has been slow to grapple with climate change, but it can play a critical role in addressing obstacles to nation-wide action. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
It will take a concerted effort at multiple levels—from climate adaptation to recovery funding to police awareness—to prevent climate-related disasters from making society’s battle against human trafficking even more difficult.
Fear is not an ignoble sentiment.
Libya’s acute vulnerabilities to climate change have been exacerbated by years of conflict, corruption, infrastructural decay, and environmental deterioration.
Day after day, news reports depict how extreme heatwaves, floods, drought, and fires are indiscriminately ravaging continents, causing havoc, losses, damage, and tragedy, and fueling a sense of despair among affected communities. Yet, the IMF response to this crisis has so far been muted.
Billions were allocated to help countries fight Covid – the same must be done for climate action.
Lula has campaigned on the promise to bring deforestation levels in the Amazon down to zero. The question is whether he can in fact deliver. Brazil has developed an addiction to deforestation. In order to break it, the incoming president will have to muster all the support he can find.