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Commonwealth seeks common response to climate threat

by Joydeep Gupta | Dec 12, 2017

The devastation of Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean due to the series of hurricanes this year has brought an increasing sense of urgency

Why was the Commonwealth Secretary General at the UN climate summit? “The Commonwealth is very involved in tackling climate change,” answered Patricia Scotland. “We were the first to put climate change on the agenda, in 1989…Read more

Climate change a threat to rich and poor alike

by Achim Steiner, Patricia Espinosa, Robert Glasser | Oct 12, 2017

The devastation of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season and record floods across Bangladesh, India and Nepal serve as a reminder that the impacts of climate change know no borders

On the eve of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we need to remember that in the past two years, over 40 million people across the world were forced from their homes by disasters…Read More

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