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A turning point for clean cooking
Oped, Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak & Joseph Nganga, Published on 15/05/2024
» For most of her life, Florence Auma Ode cooked over an open fire in her Kenyan home. The resulting smoke coated the walls with a layer of soot and filled her lungs -- and those of her family members -- with particulate matter.
Ripe time for culture-based action
Oped, Salem bin Khalid Al Qassimi & Margareth Menezes, Published on 14/12/2023
» Climate change affects every aspect of our lives, from the food we produce and our health to global peace and security. But the climate crisis is transforming not only our natural ecosystems but also our social and cultural landscapes, eroding our tangible and intangible heritage and practices, and depriving us of precious sources of resilience, meaning, identity, and knowledge.
Fostering agency where it counts
Oped, Rania Al-Mashat & Erik Berglöf, Published on 15/06/2023
» The gap between the resources needed to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and the resources that are available currently amounts to trillions of dollars and is still growing.
The world needs a bold but realistic energy plan
Oped, Sultan Al Jaber, Published on 23/08/2022
» Record growth in renewables, representing over 80% of all new power-generating capacity last year, is the clearest sign yet that the energy transition is gathering pace. But recent events have shown that unplugging the current energy system before we have built a sufficiently robust alternative puts both economic and climate progress at risk -- and calls into question whether we can ensure a just transition that is equitable to all.
Kofi Annan's lessons in global leadership
Oped, Nane Annan, Mark Malloch-Brown, Comfort Ero, Susana Malcorra and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Published on 09/06/2022
» The world is facing a set of acute crises without recent parallel: a war in Europe that could escalate into a nuclear conflict, skyrocketing food prices that are hitting the poor the hardest, the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. We need principled statesmen and women to forge bold, morally consistent responses to these and other global problems. Sadly, such leaders are in short supply.
World's deadliest storm stirred a disaster revolution
Oped, Harun Al Rashid, Published on 03/07/2021
» Over the past 50 years, I have witnessed dozens of cyclones and I have seen the difference early action makes in Bangladesh. I have experienced the worst and the best with my own eyes. The deafening roar still rings in my ears.