Human Rights & Migration
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CitiesDrought, Famine & WildfiresHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Planners Look for U.S. ‘Climate Havens’ to Receive Millions of Internal Migrants by 2100
Urban planners are looking to cities like Duluth, Minnesota, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Portland, Oregon as future refuges for climate migrants displaced within the United ... -
Conservation Measures Avert Cape Town’s Day Zero, But Tensions Remain
While technical fixes like lowering municipal water pressure helped Cape Town keep the taps on through its recent drought, it was the city’s carefully ... -
Climate Change Devastates Honduran Coffee Farms, Drives ‘Desperate’ Northbound Migration
Small-hold coffee farmers from Honduras number increasingly in the caravans of desperate people streaming north out of Central America, as the devastation wrought by ... -
AfricaCitiesClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsElectricity GridHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & Studies
Cooling to Avert Heat Stress Could Cost African Regions $487 Billion by 2076
It will cost three key regions of Africa as much as US$487 billion in energy use by 2076 to deal with increased heat stress ... -
CitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFood SecurityHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesOceans
UN Agency Backs Futuristic Floating Cities as Hedge Against Sea Level Rise
A research coalition backed by a United Nations agency will look at the possibility of building floating cities to provide a futuristic form of ... -
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Indonesia Sees Path to Prosperity in ‘Mainstreaming’ Low-Carbon Development
Indonesia’s planning minister has said the country will choose a low-carbon development pathway after a government report found it could significantly boost the economy. By ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCitiesHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJobsSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Poor Community Bears the Brunt as ‘Racial-Ethnic Disparities’ Hit Bronx’s Asthma Alley
The low-income Bronx neighbourhood of Mott Haven, also known as “Asthma Alley”, is receiving some profile as an example of the “racial-ethnic disparities” in ... -
CanadaCitiesCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJobsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPodcasts & WebinarsPost-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Connect Climate Crisis to Peoples’ Daily Lives, Pike Urges
At a time when public opinion on climate change is shifting in some “pretty positive ways”, climate communicators’ goal should be to make the ... -
ChinaFinance & InvestmentHuman Rights & MigrationIndiaOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolarUnited States
Silicon Valley Start-Up Brings Off-Grid Solar Lighting to 100 Million People
A pair of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs has raised just over US$100 million on a mission to make renewable electricity available to 2.3 billion people. -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourHuman Rights & MigrationPost-Carbon Transition
No More ‘Existential Exceptionalism’: Climate Isn’t the First Survival Crisis Communities of Colour Have Faced
The “existential exceptionalism” of assuming that climate change makes the environmental movement the first in history to stare down a threat of such great ... -
AustraliaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentHuman Rights & MigrationNational Plans & ResponsesSmall Island StatesSoil & Natural Sequestration
Australia Yanks Support from UN’s Green Climate Fund as National Elections Loom
Australia will stop contributions to the United Nations’ major fund for battling climate change this year, according to government budget papers released on Tuesday. With ... -
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Pine Ridge Reservation in Crisis, 13 Million People at Risk, as Experts Say Midwestern U.S. Flooding Could Continue for Months
The record-breaking floods that hit parts of the midwestern United States last week are shaping up as a long-term, slow-moving disaster, with residents of ...
