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Environment

The tables turned green: Germany as G7’s new president

By Karen Restrepo Ávila  It’s been a month since Germany’s move to the presidency of the G7 and the goals for this new term go from international cooperation to a prompt joint effort to tackle this generation’s biggest challenge: climate…

The USA and COP26: The Road to Global Climate Utopia or Dystopia?

By Megan Simpson Global leaders are beginning to recognize the economic, environmental and humanitarian costs of failure to curb climate change and sustain global warming below 1.5˚C. The recent COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, can be assumed to have produced a…

COVID-19: A Global Climate Warning?

In 1968, Garrett Hardin published a classic titled “The Tragedy of the Commons”. Hardin captured the dilemma surrounding global environmental politics, using the illustration of sheepherders sharing an open pasture. As the herders increased the number of sheep in their…