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developing countries

Bonn Climate Talks Rife With Roadblocks and Dead Ends

As some wealthy countries backslide on climate promises, the world’s least developed countries warn that “every fraction of a degree matters.”

By Bob Berwyn

Representatives attend the closing plenary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change talks on June 26 in Bonn, Germany. Credit: Lara Murillo/U.N. Climate Change
Shop vendors protest a foreign consortium’s sharp increase in water rates in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on Feb. 5, 2000. The city’s water services were privatized in the late 1990s with encouragement from the World Bank. Credit: Gonzalo Espinoza/AFP via Getty Images

Nations Are Exiting a Secretive System That Protects Corporations. One Country’s Story Shows How Hard That Can Be

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the small Arctic town of Narsaq in southern Greenland, where Greenland Minerals arrived in 2007. Credit: Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How to Buy a Piece of a Lawsuit and Impoverish a Country

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster, Samoa Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, leaves a meeting as a representative of the Alliance of Small Island States on day twelve of the COP29 climate conference on Nov. 23 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

How COP29 Came Close to Collapse, as Developed and Developing Nations Clashed Under the Weak Azerbaijanis

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

In a photo taken on May 4, 2023, residents cross a temporary bridge near hotels and houses that were damaged by flash floods on the banks of the Swat River in 2022 in Bahrain, a town in the Swat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer of 2022. The ensuing floods that put a third of the country underwater, damaged two million homes and killed more than 1,700 people. Credit: Aamir Qureshi / AFP via Getty Images

Deep Rifts at UN Loss and Damage Talks Cast a Shadow on Upcoming Climate Conference

By Bob Berwyn

An office worker returning home in Chittagong as the city faces unprecedented flooding due to rising sea level, the release of water from the Kaptai Lake, and the suspension of the Karnaphuli River dredging. Credit: K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images

Twice as Much Land in Developing Nations Will be Swamped by Rising Seas than Previously Projected, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

Tata Mundra project

World Bank's Coal Policy Stalls

By Matthew Berger, SolveClimate News

Air pollution in Hangzhou, China

Study Finds Rise in 'Outsourced' Emissions

By Duncan Clark, Guardian

Mexico City Gives 2010 Summit a Front Row Seat to the Climate Crisis

By Ann Danylkiw

Could Climate Change Be the End of the 'Third World'?

By Andrew Mannle

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