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IPCC report: how politics – not climate change – is responsible for disasters and conflict

By Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL

The latest UN report on the potential impacts of climate change gives a grim verdict, with some effects now deemed unavoidable. But there are also lessons on disasters and violent conflicts which could help save lives and create safer societies regardless of human-caused climate change.

The main available text of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on “Impacts,…

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