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COP15

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

From today onwards, I will be reporting on the UN Climate Conference, COP15, in Copenhagen, representing the WSC-SD.
To give a kick-start, below is the first article.
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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Economic Development · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Science · Society · Sustainable Development · World · Youth

HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist

June 6th, 2009 · No Comments

‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home.
Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets out to shift [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Photography & journalism · Politics & International Relations · Society · Sustainable Development · World

Using Human Rights Law to Address Climate Change

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

What are the legal and human rights implications of climate change?
As the evidence becomes stronger and the science more serious, people in countries, companies, institutions and professions everywhere are taking up the issue of climate change and sounding the alarm.
Among these concerned global citizens are lawyers and legal professionals. To gather this community together, law [...]

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Tags: Climate & Energy · Earth & Environment · Human Rights