Kunda Dixit In democracies, communication is essential in prompting action to redress environmental damage. The public and policymakers in government need to know what the problems are, and which interventions have worked, before they can start addressing them. In some authoritarian countries, a top-down approach on environmental...
Pie Mabanta-Fenomeno Amid the lush and vibrant landscape of the Philippines, where natural resources abound and the scenery become a perfect background for heartfelt narratives, one story is often overlooked: the story of its marginalized and indigenous peoples in the face of climate change. At the...
Dina Gilio-Whitaker There is an old adage that the best way to really learn about a subject is to teach it. I would agree but with a caveat: one must begin with at least a baseline understanding of the topic at hand. Such was the case...
Paula Kowal World leaders and international civil society gathered in New York on 22-23 September 2024 for the UN Summit of the Future. The following article takes issue with how the climate-gender-conflict nexus was not discussed in the lead-up to the Summit. Reviewing the summit documents,...
The Green Digital Action (GDA) initiative aims to harness the transformative power of digital technologies in a collective fight against climate change and calls on the technology industry to take responsibility for its environmental impact. The GDA initiative was launched by ITU and over 40...
Jim McDonnell A year is a long time in the world of AI. Back in the halcyon days of the Bletchley Park Summit on Internet Safety in 2003, the great and the good of the AI world convened to discuss and debate the future regulation of...
