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Of Climate Change, Broadway and Sea Level Rise

While it may not have the allure of a Broadway musical, New York City Climate Week has become a magnet for a special kind of visitor. Each year, during the third week of September, thousands of government officials, CEOs, experts, and activists from around the world floc...

2 September 2024

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“Battle lines” exposed at COP28

The UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, COP28, draws to a close, but after a number of initial, important announcements that set a strong momentum, will it deliver on what is, admittedly, the principal swinger theme – fossil fuels phase-out?

12 December 2023

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Prince Harry vs. the IPCC, or how to combat climate fatalism

The Gorafi, a French cousin of The Onion, titled it: ‘IPCC report says there won't be enough trees left to print the next IPCC report’. Dark humor aside, the comparatively low impact from the recent IPCC release shows we are becoming numb to climate news and, most danger...

25 April 2023

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Renewable energy growth, a bright spot on a gloomy horizon

Multiple mega-threats seem to loom larger and darker by the week: climate change, inflation, social inequalities, pandemics and, last but not least, the steady escalation in the geopolitical confrontations between nuclear powers. In this bleak landscape, the growth of r...

13 April 2023

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