The UN Created a New Way to Monitor Small Scale Natural Disasters Around the WorldIn UN circles “Sendai” is shorthand for a major 2016 conference about disaster risk reduction, which took place in Sendai,...
PODCAST: Anote Tong is the former President of Kiribati, an island nation threatened by the rising seasTo the people of Kiribati, climate change is an existential threat. This is an Island nation in the pacific —...
Cape Town is Running Out of Water (Welcome to Our Future)Cape Town is bracing for an unfortunate distinction: becoming the first major city in the world to run out of...
The Omission of “Climate Change” from the New US National Security Strategy Could Have Broad Diplomatic ConsequencesEarlier this week, Donald Trump put out a National Security Strategy that made no mention of climate change. This struck some observers...
This is what a “Marshall Plan” For Sustainably Rebuilding Storm Ravaged Caribbean Could Look LikeHurricane season officially ends today. And more than two months after deadly storms tore through the region, full recovery is...
The First Big Global Climate Conference of the Trump Era Just Wrapped Up. Here’s what happened.Negotiators departed this year’s UN climate change conference in Bonn having demonstrated stronger commitment to the Paris Agreement than ever...
Michael Bloomberg and Jerry Brown are Leading a Shadow US Delegation to the Big UN Climate Talks in BonnThe Trump administration is at the climate conference in Bonn to tout America’s coal and natural gas reserves, but a...
This year’s big UN climate conference starts today. Here’s what you need to know.Last year, on November 7 in Marrakech, Morocco, representatives of the world’s governments gathered to discuss their plans for implementing...
PODCAST: How California is Leading the Way on Climate ChangeIf California were a country, it would be the sixth largest economy in the world. Its population is greater than...