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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. These climate-fueled disasters are undermining economic development and hard-won gains in public health and poverty eradication. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). In 2020, developed countries contributed only US$ 83.3