International refugee law must be overhauled to consider climate change and include 'deadly environments' as a form of persecution.
Tag: climate change
Listen to the River
'These veins of the Earth, with blood running above, forever quenches your ravenous thirst.'
Oh! Our Dreams, They Are Drowning
A poem from the point of view of a young woman trying to fight systemic oppression amidst an impending catastrophic climate crisis.
Rainwater Flooding
A poem on the heavy rains that have battered Chennai in recent days.
‘I Can Only Tell My Own Stories, the Ones I Can Connect With Personally’: Syed Jazib Ali
Ali, a 26-year-old filmmaker from Kashmir, co-directed a short film called 'ActNow' about the concerns of the youth on climate change. The film will be screened at COP26’s Glasgow …
COP26: Whom Should Developing Countries Bill for Climate Impacts?
The countries hit hardest by climate change caused by developed nations want loss and damage to be included in climate finance talks. Will rich polluters finally listen?
Will COP26 Deforestation Pledge Be a Game-Changer, or Just More Broken Promises?
A major commitment to ending and reversing deforestation at COP26 will need more funding, transparent monitoring and tough regulation of businesses and financiers linked to forest destruction to work.
We Need More Radical Climate Fiction
Literature has seen an uptick in 'cli-fi,' fiction about possible climate dystopias and utopias. But too much of that climate-change-related fiction lacks any kind of radical political imagination.
World Over, Youth Return to the Streets To Fight Climate Change
The strike takes place five weeks before the UN COP26 summit, which aims to secure more ambitious climate action from world leaders.
Excerpt | Millennials and the Political Arena: Anxiety as an Electoral Weapon
Excerpted with permission from 'What Millennials Want: Decoding the World’s Largest Generation' by Vivan Marwaha.