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Locals in Tebikenikora, a village in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the area to discuss villagers’ concerns about the effects of climate change on their low-lying land.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
microfinance

Climate change, human rights and microfinance: lessons learned from the Pacific Islands

The first UNEP synthesis report is titled: Making Peace with Nature
United Nations

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Making Peace With Nature

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education

Arqus Winter School 2021: Rethinking climate risk

United Nations

United Nations: Adaptation Gap Report 2020

Venice Acqua Alta
human rights

University of Padova: Call for applications - Project "Rethinking climate risk: the Venice paradigm". Deadline: 18 December 2020

Locals navigating the Atrato River
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climate change

Navigating new rights and responsibilities in the Colombian Atrato River - An ecocentric approach to human rights

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human rights

Climate Action Award winners 2020: shine ray of hope

View of the melting Collins Glacier in Antarctica, showing the effects of climate change.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
climate change

The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage: the Economical-Political Blockade and Future Prospects for Reparations against Climate Change Impacts

A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
human rights

Bachelet to the Human Rights Council on climate emergency: “The world has never seen a threat to human rights of this scope”

United Nations Conference on climate change and human rights, Fiji, 5-7 August 2019
human rights

United Nations: Conference on climate change and human rights, Fiji, 5-7 August 2019. Michelle Bachelet invites to walk the talk

People at the marketplace of Lolachat in Uganda
Uganda

Think Globally, Act Locally: Building Rural Climate Resilience in Karamoja, Uganda

African woman in the countryside with goats.
© Kenya © IOM 2011/Brandan Bannon
climate change

Towards a climate migration governance: the new challenge of the 21st century

Polar ice viewed, which is melting, from aboard the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, "KV Svalbard", during Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the Polar ice rim to witness firsthand the impact of climate change on icebergs and glaciers.
© UN Photo
Italy

Italy ratifies a set of international environmental legal instruments

fairtrade coffee challenge 2016
human rights

The Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua, 13th may 2016: a Coffee for Human Rights

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environment

The Evolution, Status and Future Position of American Environmental Policy: environmental action at the domestic level and in the context of international cooperation (2010)