The Chipko Andolan: From Village Protests to Global Climate Movement
When Greta Thunberg began to challenge world leaders at only 15 years of age, she probably had no idea so many would join her climate strike movement. We learnt from Greta’s actions that when we come together, we can ignite real change. Another movement that did this was the Chipko movement, also called Chipko Andolan. […]
Everything You Need to Know About the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement treaty was formed in 2015, with a mission to reduce the emission of gasses that contributed to global warming. With the first-ever universal agreement to fight global change, France has promised stakeholders to make it universal and legally binding, fair and different, and sustainable and dynamic. The treaty replaced the Kyoto Protocol, […]
The Rise of Greta Thunberg
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here,” Thunberg said. “I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you have come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” Greta Thunberg was born in the […]
Climate Change: The Tipping Point
The amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is the highest it’s ever been. With ice caps melting, temperatures and sea levels rising, and natural disasters becoming more frequent, we can’t ignore the disastrous effects of climate change. The climate is changing, and to slow it down, we have to change too. Here are seven […]
How Philanthropy Can Drive Sustainable Change
According to The World Bank, 140 million people could be displaced by climate change by 2050. We are in an extreme climate emergency and we have no more time to waste when it comes to saving our planet. Imagine we could stop the natural world from being destroyed and instead restore it and allow it […]
How Wildfires and Climate Change are connected
Global warming is increasing the number of wildfires all over the world. It’s a natural process that occurs when the temperature rises and the soil is dried, but it has been more frequent in the last decades because of climate change and the human action to burn down lands for livestock. The earlier snow melts […]
It’s Critical That We Stop the Temperatures From Rising
Extreme heat conditions occur at a much hotter or more humid temperature than the average for a particular time and place. These rising temperatures are already happening and are expected to become more common and more severe due to climate change. Climate change encompasses rising average temperatures and extreme weather events such as droughts and […]