The Covid-19 pandemic has created human suffering on a global scale, but also a window of opportunity to rethink how we live, work and play. For the time being, calls for a green recovery that ...
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Southern Africa Is in the Climate Crisis Firing Line — We Need Urgent Climate Justice Strategies
Southern Africa is one of the most water-scarce regions in the world. Various weather studies have shown that increases in the global temperature are likely to disrupt the already temperamental rainfall patterns. Now is the ...
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Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Africa Must Include Impacts of Climate Crisis
When climate change impacts affect people’s access to the natural resources they rely on — such as water, timber and land for crops — it strains relations within and across social groups. Social cohesion is ...
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Two new reviews have been published of The Global Climate Regime and Transitional Justice, by Sonja Klinsky and Jasmina Brankovic.In the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Ottavio Quirico writes, “Klinsky and Brankovic comprehensively apply transitional ...
Read More The debate about global climate change triggers visceral emotions – moral outrage, a sense of injustice, feelings of empathy, and concerns for equity. When passionate partisans advocate their positions on climate action (i.e., what to ...
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Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy. Mechanisms and insights from transitional justice have been used in over thirty countries across a ...
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