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Centering Biodiversity in Climate Futures

8 May 2025
One of the most powerful yet overlooked ways we can shape climate futures is by protecting and restoring biodiversity. Healthy ecosystems not only store carbon but also build resilience against…
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Protected: Bridging Past and Future: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Resilience

7 May 20258 May 2025
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“From policy to practice: Translating climate science into actionable strategies”

6 May 2025
Discuss the challenges and opportunities in turning scientific insights into policies and initiations that enhances meaningful climate action, by bridging the gap between research and real-world applications. One major challenge…
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Protected: Financing conservation through “interspecies money” and addressing social motives for destroying and depleting the environment

6 May 2025
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Empowering Climate Action through Community-Led Solutions

5 May 2025
Community-driven energy solutions that combines social insights, like understanding cultural and behavioral barriers, with technology can help create more effective climate actions. By using participatory digital platforms, such as co-designed…
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Bringing Nature into the Picture

5 May 2025
The scope of possible futures and action pathways as presented in the IPCC reports are prominently based on scenarios generated from Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Thus, the assumptions and decisisons…
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Who shapes our climate future? The role of political participation

5 May 2025
Frameworks like the ecological footprint or handprint offer simple, quantifiable ways to reflect on individual environmental impact. I am interested in a similar framework focusing on the impact of political…
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The power of the known: How does public scepticism influenced by political and celebrity figures affect trust in climate science, and what are the implications for the legitimacy of climate policy?

5 May 20258 May 2025
The trust in climate science globally is above roughly 90 per cent. However, there is large spatial discrepancy and policy – dependency. Furthermore, recent developments of leading figures might induce…
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What could be the societal and political implications of creating a dedicated government position on climate change and extreme weather events?

5 May 2025
Climate Change is one of the most severe crises, humankind is and will be facing in the future. However, it is still treated as one of the fields parties can…
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Redefining Climate Justice: Making Adaptation Work for India’s Excluded Communities

5 May 2025
Climate disasters such as floods, droughts, and cyclones are becoming more frequent in many parts of India, yet their impacts are not felt equally. Excluded communities - including  Scheduled castes,…

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