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UN details doubling in weather disasters ahead of climate summit

TIME TO REMEMBER. Adam Stephen Baldota, 28, wipes his tears as he prays before a mass grave that includes the body of his mother and sister. Photo by Franz Lopez/Rappler

PARIS, France (Nov. 24, 2015) — The UN on Monday, November 23, detailed a doubling in weather-related disasters over the last three decades, a week before nearly 140 world leaders gather in terror-struck Paris to thrash out a crucial climate pact.

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What’s really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned

‘The one that preoccupies me most is that core question of whose security is ultimately valued in our lopsided world.’ Illustration: Andrzej Krauze

November 22, 2015 — Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the answers are the reason climate summits so often end in acrimony and tears.

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Vulnerable countries fight for climate justice, 1.5ºC limit

CLIMATE CHANGE. Commissioner Emmanuel de Guzman speaks in behalf of the Philippines and other vulnerable countries on urgent climate action. Photo from Renee Juliene Karunungan

BONN, Germany (Oct. 25, 2015) — The last day of climate negotiations was met with protests as vulnerable countries called for climate justice and a more ambitious target of keeping global warming under a 1.5ºC limit.

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