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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Thinking outside the Oxfam Four short films explore how climate change affects women worldwide	Holly Richmond	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'Is climate change a feminist issue?' NewScientist enviro blogger Catherine Brahic asked last week, then answered, '[F]or me, climate change is not a gender issue. Climate change will not affect women more than men.' She was responding to several short films Oxfam recently produced that profile four women in Brazil, Uganda, the U.K., and Bangladesh. The films explore their experiences educating others in their communities about, and ameliorating, the effects o ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, gender, severe weather (all these topics)

Not just an environmental issue Climate change is as much a social priority as an environmental concern	Alan Durning	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Climate change is a universal menace, threatening hardships for everyone. But it's not an egalitarian menace: everyone will not suffer equally. Perversely, those people and nations least to blame for causing it are most vulnerable to its impacts. Climate disruption heaps misfortune on the less fortunate, whether in low-lying Bangladesh, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, or the flood plains around Chehalis, Wash. In the aftermath of climate change, the less you have, the ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate equity, environmental justice (all these topics)

The Ecologist dishes it up Climate refugees and Wi-Fi pollution	Erik Hoffner	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Ecologist is such a great magazine. But I'm sorry that they don't make any of their content freely available online for me to link to here, because the Dec/Jan issue has some really important reading. For one, the world's first (human) climate refugees are about to lose their islands (in the Sunderbans Delta, which straddles the border of India and Bangladesh and is the world's largest mangrove forest, due to increased flows of water from melting glaciers in the Gan ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

The United Nations and climate equity U.N. creating small Adaptation Fund by going carbon neutral	Joseph Romm	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The following essay is a guest post by Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- The IPCC has warned us that developing nations are poised to bear the most dramatic effects of global warming, and so far we (the world) have done practically nothing to counter or prevent that fact. But the U.N. is trying. This week in Bali, the U.N. announced that it will go carbon neutral by offsetting the operations of over 20 agencies, inclu ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

The land down underwater What happens to a woman without a country?	Youth Movement	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
By Amanda McKenzie, national coordinator of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. ----- Along with 10 other young Australians, I traveled to Bali to bring the voice of Australia's youth to the U.N. Climate Change Conference. We have been reminding world leaders that our future is threatened. However, my personal concerns about my future were eclipsed when a young woman named Claire from the small island nation of Kiribati stood up in front of 200 internatio ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, Kiribati (all these topics)

Injustice The 100 most vulnerable nations have contributed least to climate change	David Roberts	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Another short new briefing (PDF) from the International Institute Environment and Development (IIED), this one on the 100 countries most vulnerable to climate change: Human-induced climate change is likely to have the heaviest impact on small low-lying island and coastal states, African nations, Asian mega-deltas and the polar regions. The 100 most vulnerable countries have contributed the least to total global carbon emissions. If the highest ...
Topics: climate equity, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change' New report examines the impact of climate change on national security	Joseph Romm	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
John Podesta and Peter Ogden of the Center for American Progress have written a chapter titled 'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change,' for a report called 'The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.' They describe their work as follows: During the course of the past year, a high-level working group of foreign policy experts, climate scientists, historians, and other specialists has met ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics)

If you worry about the impact of climate mitigation on the poor ... CBPP launches a climate equity program	Joseph Romm	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
You'll be glad to know The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has launched a major climate program whose goals are to ensure that: the increased energy prices that are an essential part of climate-change legislation do not drive more households into poverty or make poor households poorer; and climate-change legislation generates sufficient revenue both to protect low-income households and to address other needs related to the fight against global warming, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, energy (all these topics)

Earth still round; sky, blue	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
IPCC: climate change will hit poor hardest.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, IPCC (all these topics)

Climate equity: Wolfgang Sachs Climate change is about equality among nations and fundamental human rights	David Roberts	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include)) This is a guest essay by Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, author and research director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy. Sachs (together with Timan Santarius et al) has just published a collection of essays called Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice. This is part of a series on climate equity. ----- Tulun and Takuu, two tiny islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are close to being swallowed ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, climate equity (all these topics)

Racking up climate debt The biggest GHG offenders will suffer the least from climate change	Joseph Romm	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The United States is an awfully wealthy nation, as is the United Kingdom. It shows in our lifestyles and it shows in our carbon dioxide emissions -- we are energy rich, not necessarily in production but in consumption. The BBC recently ran an article (opening paragraphs below) highlighting some research from a development organization, and the numbers tell a stunning yet very real story: Bristol International Airport produces the same amount of CO2 from flying e ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Climate equity: A conversation Introducing an ongoing series on the most undercovered aspect of climate change	David Roberts	15 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include))One aspect of climate change is overlooked by politicians, commentators, and big NGOs alike: equity. The suffering that climate change will bring is going to be visited primarily on the globe's most vulnerable populations -- the very people who have done the least to cause the problem. Any response to climate change that hopes to gain international legitimacy must take equity as a central organizing principle. As I see it, climate equity involve ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

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