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Climate School Experts on Congestion Pricing’s First Year
Three Climate School experts weigh in on the success of New York City’s congestion pricing program.
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The Environmental Cost of War
Daryush Nourbaha, an M.S. in Sustainability Science alum, reflects on the heavy toll of global conflict.
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Climate Finance Has Failed Africa Twice Over. Here’s How To Fix It.
Credit-rating methodologies must stop treating poverty as a self-fulfilling proxy for default risk.
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How Can AI Address Climate Justice When Women’s Voices Are Silenced?
Unless women’s lived realities are embedded in AI’s foundations, it risks reinforcing the very inequities it claims to solve.
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Planning Exercises That Got Community Engagement Right
The Resilient Coastal Communities Project has a new white paper that highlights examples of truly fair and accountable resilience planning.
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New Policies, Same Inequalities for Agricultural Workers in Mexico
Who will benefit from the new agricultural support programs that promise to help rural farmworkers?
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Climate Action Costs More in the Global South. Here’s Why.
For many countries in the Global South, the cost of transitioning to a low-carbon economy remains disproportionately high.
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The Sights and Sounds of COP30
Environmental epidemiologist Robbie Parks shares a podcast and photos from this year’s climate summit in Brazil.
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COP30 Is Over. But for the World’s Most Vulnerable, the Crisis Is Ongoing.
Anyieth Philip Ayuen, a graduate of the Climate and Society program, on the importance of keeping resilience, literacy and survival at the center of global climate policy.

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