global warming

Change and dispossession

Lack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin.

| Aug 12, 2016

Elite extravagance

The international climate discussion will go nowhere until class and capitalism are understood as central.

| Oct 01, 2009

Equalising burden-sharing

While the impact of climate change is global, the response is piecemeal and there is an increasing burden on the developing countries, and the poor living there.

| Oct 01, 2009

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