Despite the urgency of climate change, keeping track of global adaptation efforts has proven tricky. Adaptation means different things in different places: in Rotterdam, the creation of parks that can absorb larger, more frequent floods; in Los Angeles, retrofitting...
Across 2017 and 2018, a series of events aims to track and speed the world’s progress towards the goals of the historic Paris Climate Agreement. During the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue, for instance, national governments will take stock of their collective progress...
The term ‘sustainability’ has become synonymous with environmentalism in popular culture. It is often used to refer to climate change mitigation and adaptation; the ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ movement; cycling to work; vegetarianism; and so on. Within academic...
In the past year, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the air quality emergency in Delhi, India have brought the inability of some cities to provide a healthy environment for their residents into sharper focus. However, as these crises unfolded, wealthy residents...
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