Working Group Name: Climate and Peace Executive Summary Militarism and war can be fatal to the profound international cooperation that is necessary to deal successfully with the climate emergency. Further, war preparation and fighting do huge and lasting climate and other environmental damage. […]
by Denis Dettling Kalthofer With Putin’s horrific war against Ukraine raging, it is understandably easy to forget about climate change. Social movements, like the fight against climate change, often start small, get put on the back burner and/or stay small for years, despite the best […]
by Nick Rabb As a younger person living in 2022, the world seems to be stacking the deck against me. Although I have privilege in many ways, my life has been marked by financial crises, a growing climate crisis, a global pandemic, senseless wars, and […]
By Ira Helfand and Asha Asokan Today, the world lives in the shadow of two grave and deeply related existential threats. There is a growing awareness of the danger posed by the climate crisis and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit […]
by Jean-Luc Pierite No “false solutions” such as carbon markets and net zero schemes and free, prior, and informed consent from Indigenous nations are the demands going into COP26 and going forward. With the support of Rios to Rivers, International Rivers Network, and Empathy Accelerator, […]
by Nick Rabb We have entered a new era of climate catastrophe. Whereas the major problems of the past were denial and delay, the current political terrain is one where it is no longer tenable to deny the crisis itself. Now, the emerging battle is […]
by Zoe Stevenson Human beings today face climate challenges on an incomprehensibly enormous scale. Given the gravity of the situation we’re in, the guilt we carry about our part in creating it, and infuriating, long-standing government inaction, it’s no surprise that feelings of hopelessness and […]
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