Kathleen Mogelgaard’s Posts

• Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

  Population: Off the radar, not off the map 3

  Posted 5 months, 1 week ago

  "The main driving forces of future greenhouse gas trajectories will continue to be demographic change, social and economic development, and the rate and direction of technological change," according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. Two of these drivers - development and technology - have been the focus of a great deal of discussion among the international community as they continue to work toward a new international climate change agreement in Bonn this week. The third, demographic change, has been conspicuously absent.

• Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

  Powerful injustice at the Bonn climate talks 3

  Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

  Over the past few days at the Bonn climate negotiations, the issue of inequity has come up in many different contexts. Today, I am thinking about the ways that inequity rears its head in mundane but powerful ways.

• Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

  Climate change is sexist 1

  Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

  One of the under-reported issues about climate change is its dramatic affect on women.  Women make up 70 percent of the world’s poorest people, and are more likely to die in weather-related natural disasters.

• Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

  First impressions from Bonn: climate change hurts the poor 0

  Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

  At the opening of the international climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, representatives of the industrialized world somewhat sheepishly offered up their countries’ meager progress in slowing the pace of their rampant growth in emissions, while representatives from the developing world did their best to sound the alarm.

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