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To help demystify the negotiations, The Verb has produced a Negotiation Compass. As the negotiations unfold, we will use the Compass to translate diplomacy-speak and double entendres into plain language, outline possible scenarios we might end up with, and to explain the power plays behind it all.
Brazil is the seventh-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Emissions from the country’s energy sector continue to grow, and have increased by 44% in the past decade. Brazil
In partnership with WWF, Australia’s COP21 country profile.
First it was Stockholm, and now it’s Sweden. Why and how Sweden will transition to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050.
In a landmark legal ruling, a government has for the first time been held legally accountable for taking insufficient action to prevent dangerous climate change.
Climate change has a pernicious cousin that we often overlook: ocean acidification.
The second part of this two-part series on Wild Law presents a range of legal initiatives that are being undertaken around the world, in a new wave of action seeking to represent nature in a way that our legal systems understand.
The Verb reflects on the lessons from the Lima Call for Climate Action, and what they presage about climate politics in 2015.
The law is one of our most powerful shields against harm, but when it comes to environmental protection our judicial defences often fall short. In a two-part series on wild law, The Verb explores pioneering new legal mechanisms that may provide an answer.