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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 the Paris Agreement on climate change. The conference was overshadowed, however, by a momentous event on the second day: Donald...

Map of the Day: Where it Will Be Too Hot To Live By 2100

Today’s map comes from scientists at MIT, who found that significant portions of Southeast Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could be uninhabitable in 73 years. Using climate modeling scenarios, the team of researchers let by Elfatih Eltahir found that...

Trump is Pulling out of the Paris Agreement? Here’s what will happen

After months of delays, foot-dragging, inconclusive meetings and further delays, news reports are saying that Donald Trump is poised to announce his decision on the Paris Agreement: He’s bailing. By staying in the agreement the US had nothing to lose. But by...

Better Know The Paris Climate Agreement

The Paris agreement that was adopted on December 12 was a triumph of diplomacy. It is also a affirmation of idealism in international relations — that the anarchy of the international system can be transcended to find global solutions to...

Paris Attacks: “The biggest threat we face is division”

UN Dispatch editor Mark Goldberg asked me to write about the Paris attacks. He asked the same after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, and I did. Words flowed freely, and while I was of course horrified and disgusted by...

This year’s big UN climate conference starts today. Here’s what you need to know.

Map of the Day: Where it Will Be Too Hot To Live By 2100

Trump is Pulling out of the Paris Agreement? Here’s what will happen

Better Know The Paris Climate Agreement

Paris Attacks: “The biggest threat we face is division”

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations