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People: News links for April 2019

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Humanity:

Feeling the heat

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AP   UN report: Extreme weather hit 62 million people in 2018

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Bloomberg   Wall Street Is Masking the True Cost of Climate Change for Coastal Homes

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Eco-Business   Leaving no worker behind in a low carbon future

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Eco-Business   The ides of the climate crisis

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Guardian   Mosquito-spread diseases may endanger millions in new places due to climate change

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New York Times   Can Art Help Save the Planet?

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Newsweek   AMERICAN REFUGEES: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE MIGHT FORCE U.S. MIGRATION NORTH AND WHERE THEY COULD GO

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RSA/Climate and Development   Climate change, environmental stress and loss of livelihoods can push people towards illegal activities: a case study from coastal Bangladesh

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Springer/InternationalJournal of Biometeorology   Hot and bothered? Associations between temperature and crime in Australia

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The Age [Australia]   'We didn't deserve it': Retirees donate savings to climate fight

The Conversation   Emissions inequality: there is a gulf between global rich and poor

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Vox   We need to talk about the ethics of having children in a warming world

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Yale   Four stories capture the impacts of climate change in the Andes

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Hunger, diet, health

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Atlantic   The Stress of a Natural Disaster Can Take a Toll on Babies in Utero

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Guardian   Climate change is not only destroying the planet, but our psyches as well

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NPR   CHART: Where Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes Will Go In The Future

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Scientific American   Climate Change Is Having a Major Impact on Global Health

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Women

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BBC   The women too scared of climate change to have children

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DW   The women left to face climate change and overfishing alone

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Grist   Mary Robinson, international climate badass, on why green solutions require a feminist lens

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Guardian   BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends

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Guardian   Woman Fest founder plans training camp for climate rebels

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Pacific Standard   CHRISTIANA FIGUERES: FEARLESS WOMEN WILL LEAD ON CLIMATE ACTION

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Thomson Reuters Foundation   From Antarctica to Costa Rica, women team up to build a climate-safe future

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Times [UK]   BirthStrike: women go cold on babies as world hots up

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USA Today   'How could I bring a child into the world?': More women say climate change means they won't have kids

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Vox   We need to talk about the ethics of having children in a warming world

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WRI   Will Women Build the Sustainable Infrastructure of the Future?

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Yale   A reading list on women and climate change

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Other stories about humanity

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ABC   Swiss skier Daniel Yule pledges prize money to fight climate change in protest over sport's president

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Atlantic   America Cares About Climate Change Again

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CNN   How climate change is fueling extremism

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Globe & Mail [Canada]   Indigenous guardians raise the alarm on impact of climate change in Canada

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Grist   We weren’t ready for climate change leggings

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Guardian   I see how climate change will lead to conflict in my home country, Nigeria

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Scientific American/E&E News   How Co-ops Are Bringing Solar Power to Rural America

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The Conversation      Anthropocene doesn’t exist and species of the future will not recognise it

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Wiley/Climate Change   Editorial comment: How should we ask questions about the social status of climate change knowledge?

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Yale   New poetry collections grapple with climate change

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Yale   To cut carbon pollution, try buying less and spending time with friends instead

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Politics: Will government save us?

 

Politics of assorted national governments

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Axios   Why Australia's climate change election matters to the world

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Climate Home News   ‘We were ecologists before the capitalists’: the gilets jaunes and climate justice

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Eco-Business   Indonesia charts a new, low carbon development path. Will other countries follow suit?

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Elsevier/Science Direct/Energy Policy   Subsidizing renewables as part of taking leadership in international climate policy: The German case

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Elsevier/Science Direct/Energy Policy   Subsidizing renewables as part of taking leadership in international climate policy: The German case

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Guardian   ‘One chance at survival’: Jay Inslee is running for president to fight climate change

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Guardian   Norway's $1tn wealth fund to divest from oil and gas exploration

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Guardian   Norway's $1tn wealth fund to divest from oil and gas exploration

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Independent [UK]   Labour declares national ‘environment and climate emergency’

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Mongabay   PNG politicians push coal as Pacific islanders rail against climate change

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Nature   Assessing the Policy gaps for achieving China’s climate targets in the Paris Agreement

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Reuters   Dutch to introduce corporate CO2 tax as climate plans fall short

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Reuters   Finland wants EU to agree plan for net-zero carbon footprint

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Reuters   Indonesia says low-carbon plan could spur annual GDP growth

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Wiley/Climate Change   The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform: Implications for climate change mitigation

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United States politics

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Bloomberg   Republicans Who Couldn't Beat Climate Debate Now Seek to Join It

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Guardian   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right – it's time for radical change, not more ‘meh’ politics

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Guardian   Donald Trump is using Stalinist tactics to discredit climate science

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NPR   Former Defense Leaders Warn White House It's 'Dangerous' To Downplay Climate Change

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Politico   The bogus number at the center of the GOP’s Green New Deal attacks

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The Conversation   The Green New Deal’s contradiction – new infrastructure and redistribution may boost carbon emissions

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The Hill   Pelosi, Dems unveil bill to bind Trump to Paris climate accord

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The Hill   Romney helps GOP look for new path on climate change

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Think Progress   Republicans are the real threat to hamburgers, not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Vox   The Green New Deal and the case against incremental climate policy

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Washington Post   Federal judge demands Trump administration reveal how its drilling plans will fuel climate change

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Legal action

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E&E News   D.C. girds for Exxon climate battle

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Euractiv   Burning trees as climate mitigation: A resort to the Court

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France 24   French state faces landmark lawsuit over climate inaction

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Guardian   The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted

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National Geographic   Support is surging for teens’ climate change lawsuit

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San Francisco Chronicle   Are oil companies responsible for climate change? A group of senators thinks so

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Vox   Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits

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Wiley/Climate Change   Climate change litigation: A review of research on courts and litigants in climate governance

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UN negotiations

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Axios   The world's first climate treaty turns 25

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Climate Home News   After 25 years of failure, we should abandon the UNFCCC

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Climate home news   Next UN climate summit scheduled for December in Chile

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Wiley/Climate Change   Institutional and environmental effectiveness: Will the Paris Agreement work?

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Other politics stories

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Bloomberg   San Francisco’s Version of a Green New Deal Is Taking Over Its Power Company

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Business Green   CORSIA is a unique opportunity to make growth in international aviation carbon-neutral

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Climate Home News   EU leaders’ draft statement dismays climate campaigners

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Guardian   Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it?

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Scientific American   How to Deal with Chaos in Climate and Politics

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Photo Attributions

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Heading: People: Photo by: Takver

Heading: Public viewpoints: Photo by: Ivy Dawned

Heading: Civil action: Photo by: Takver

Heading: Human suffering: Photo by: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Heading: Politics: Photo by: Falcon® Photography 

Heading: Adaptation: Photo by: U.S. Mission Uganda/Flickr

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