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Human capital is essential for meeting the objectives of addressing climate change and fostering development. Without focused investments in people, climate change will accelerate global poverty, exacerbate inequities, and will itself continue unabated. Climate-smart human capital can alleviate the worst impacts of climate change on people and can also empower people …

A series of short documentaries produced by Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa (MENA) presenting the grave impact of climate change on communities and the natural world in six countries across the region. The documentaries were produced to coincide with the publication of a new report from Greenpeace Research Laboratories, …

Every year, flooding affects around 45,000 Ghanaians. Coastal erosion and sea-level rise is also threatening Ghana’s coastline. Without urgent climate action, an additional one million Ghanaians risk falling into poverty by 2050. Agriculture yields and labor productivity would drop, and incomes could be reduced by up to 40% for the …

Prof Harvey uses a simplified version of historical materialism to apply Marx’s philosophy to the modern issue of climate change. “Technology, relation to nature, social relations, production structures, and mental conceptions of the world, and administrative and social structures- all of those elements are part of the totality of what …

A fantastic day as schools from across Scotland came together to share their climate-focused Social Enterprise ideas in celebration of COP26 in Glasgow. Find out how to get involved in Social Enterprise Schools: https://www.socialenterprise.academy/scot/social-enterprise-schools source

We’re bringing our podcast Cities After… to YouTube! [S02 E13] Climate Change Series: The Circular Economy – Pt. 4 In Part 4 of Cities After…Summer Climate Change series, Prof. Robles-Durán talks about the most significant delusional solution to Climate change to date: The Circular Economy, an economic framework that highlights …

Private jets. Mega-yachts. Helicopters. Mansions. The luxury lifestyles of the ultra-rich are pumping our air full of pollutants. So how do we clean them up – and why is progress so slow? Credits Reporter: Ajit Niranjan Video Editor: Nils Reinecke Supervising editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer We’re destroying our environment …

Bringing up climate change is one tried and true way to ruin a dinner party — and leave people feeling helpless and apathetic. But it doesn’t have to be that way, if we change how we communicate. So let’s talk, about how we talk, about climate change. Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner …

At the end of May, diesel leaked from the storage tank of a thermal power station near the industrial city of Norilsk in Russia. 21,000 tons of diesel was leaked into the Ambarnaya River, which was turned red by the oil. However, there was no official response until days later. …