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Durban

Muddy water running through an informal settlement of huts

South African floods: Protecting people must include a focus on women and girls

Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.

A group of people hold up a large white sign with black letters and a yellow X through it.

Climate divestment activists draw inspiration from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle

The Big Fix

Transplant Patients Compete in Olympic-like Games

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Conclave Convenes as One Billion Catholics Wonder What’s Next

After the Durban Climate Conference

UN Reaches Climate Deal in Durban, South Africa

It was a long two weeks with plenty of drama, but UN delegates from around the globe agreed on Sunday in Durban, South Africa to forge a new deal to combat climate change. For the first time, the Durban Platform will force all the biggest polluters to limit greenhouse gas emissions, including emerging economies like […]

Durban Climate Conference

A Groundbreaking Deal at the Durban Climate Summit commits the US, China, and 192 other nations to the same legal regime to limit greenhouse gas emissions, starting in 2020. Details are to be negotiated by 2015.

Young Activist Speaks Out in Durban

An American student speaks truth to power, challenging delegates at the UN climate conference in Durban to take urgent action to curb climate warming gases.

Climate Talks Face Stalemate

Global Politics

Marco Werman speaks with climate policy expert Kelly Sims Gallagher about the stalemate in the UN climate negotiations.

2011 Durban Climate Change Conference

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, the nations of the world are struggling to address a problem that’s racing far ahead of our response so far.   The UN process remains gridlocked on the big issue of hard commitments from major polluters like the US and China to cut their greenhouse […]