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Maharashtra: Unrest Across Eastern Vidarbha as Adivasi Communities Fear Losing Zudpi Jungle

For generations, the Zudpi lands have served as grazing ground for feeding livestock, threshing sites, cremation grounds, and community spaces for Adivasi communities but their ambiguous legal status has made them a flashpoint of conflict.

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Sukriti Vats

December 15, 2024

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Did Azure Power grab tribal farming land in Assam for its solar plant?

The farmers, who have cultivated the land for generations, say they were deprived of their land without proper consent or compensation.

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Mahmodul Hassan

December 4, 2024

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'We Have Seen What You Have Done': India Accuses COP29 Presidency, UN of 'Stage Managing' Decision

India’s accusation that it was not allowed to object to a new finance deal at COP29 raises questions on the decision making process at the UN climate body.

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Kumar Sambhav and Mrinali

November 25, 2024

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Just $250B For Climate Finance Annually; ‘Watered-Down’ Amount ‘Disgrace’, Say Developing Nations

Developing countries have asked for at least $1 trillion but the latest draft on the NCQG says developed countries will mobilise $250 billion per year by 2035.

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Kumar Sambhav and Mrinali

November 22, 2024

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Maharashtra elections: Rising human-tiger conflict fuels political tensions

An eerie silence persists in the thickly forested buffer zone of Pench Tiger Reserve. Within eight months, six deaths were reported from tiger attacks on tribal communities living in Maharashtra’s Jhinjhariya, Tuyapar, and Deolapar villages in Ramtek taluka, among other areas.

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November 19, 2024

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Jharkhand’s controversial Land Bank is undermining rights of marginalised

In 2021, 63-year-old Thupa Singh, an Adivasi farmer in the Daldalia village in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, found himself and eight other families in jeopardy. Thupa said that contractors and workers had arrived to construct Eklavya Model Residential School on the land they had been living on for generations. To their surprise, the portion of village land these families were living, cultivating, and paying taxes for was found to be already included in the state’s controversial Land Bank

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Mahmodul Hassan

November 17, 2024

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How a land conflict spread across 12 districts is haunting Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra

The ruling coalition in Maharashtra stopped land acquisition for the very unpopular Shaktipeeth Expressway project in September, but there is unease as landowners are leveraging their votes in the upcoming Assembly election to demand cancellation of the project.

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Mahmodul Hassan

November 17, 2024

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How a land conflict spread across 12 districts is haunting Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra

The ruling coalition in Maharashtra stopped land acquisition for the very unpopular Shaktipeeth Expressway project in September, but there is unease as landowners are leveraging their votes in the upcoming Assembly election to demand cancellation of the project.

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Mahmodul Hassan

November 16, 2024

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How the NTCA Defied the Tribal Ministry, its Own Officials to Order Massive Displacement of Tribals For 'Conservation'

Documents show the National Tiger Conservation Authority was more concerned with eco-tourism in tiger reserves than the land rights of tens of thousands of tribals.

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November 4, 2024

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Delhi’s Dwarka rail terminal petition shows that citizen activism is vital to protect loosely defined ‘deemed forests’

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October 17, 2024

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Residents of Kundol village at a sacred site for the Dangi Garasia tribes nestled within mountains and groves in Gujarat's Arvalli district. They fear that a mining project here will displace them and destroy their lands, their sole source of livelihood
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In A Gujarat Village, A Clash Between Clean Energy Solutions & Those Who Bear The Cost Of The Transition

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September 19, 2024

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Is India Resisting Global Regulations on Plastic?

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September 1, 2024

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Why Gujarat’s Use Of Tech To Verify Forest Rights Claims Is Concerning

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July 8, 2024

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Why ‘Deemed Forest’ Tag For Rajasthan’s Orans May Not Save Them

The amended forest conservation rules of 2023 may effectively defang any protection afforded to the sacred groves by the deemed forest status, and restrict communities access to their traditional grazing lands.

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April 19, 2024

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Residents, activists claim new Goa airport construction has impacted water availability

Local residents of North Goa routinely face water shortages that they allege is due to the airport construction on the Barazan plateau. The geology of the plateau, with laterite rock below ground surface facilitates groundwater recharge. Through an intricate web of perennial springs and rivulets, the plateau would supply drinking water round the year to over 7,000 residents of six villages situated in close proximity to what is now the airport.

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Maitreya Prithwiraj Ghorpade

March 9, 2024

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How government bulldozers razed the hopes of the landless in Jammu and Kashmir

For years, the Indian administration has selectively evicted people – especially Muslims – from lands regularised under the now-repealed Roshni Act, leaving some homeless and many others on edge

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March 4, 2024

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Jharkhand’s “Just Transition” Remains On Paper As State Opens New Coal Mines, Fails to Shut Old Ones

In 2022, Jharkhand became the first state in the country to constitute a 'Just Transition' framework that would focus on reducing dependence on fossil fuels and promoting green energy, but instead of seeing efforts being made to close down coal mines, more projects have been opened in the state.

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Sukriti Vats

March 3, 2024

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Can we adapt before climate change drowns us?

Despite rising sea levels, heatwaves, and floods, global efforts to adapt to climate change fall short, leaving vulnerable communities exposed.

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February 21, 2024

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The amended Biological Diversity Act puts profits over people

One amendment uses “ease of doing business” as a rationale for conglomerates to be excused from paying a share of their profits to tribal populations.

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Priyansha Chouhan

December 19, 2023

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हार में 2020-21 में जल जीवन हरियाली मिशन के तहत 85,233 सोख्ता निर्माण हुआ है। इसके बावजूद सरकारी आंकड़े बताते हैं कि राज्य का भूजल स्तर गिर रहा है
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बिहार की जल जीवन हरियाली योजना पर 24 हजार करोड़ खर्च, लेकिन नतीजा सिफर

बिहार सरकार की महत्वाकांक्षी जलवायु परिवर्तन परियोजना भूमिगत जल, सिंचाई जल स्रोत में वृद्धि और वृक्षारोपण के जरिए प्रदूषण कम करने में अब तक असमर्थ रही है

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Rahul Kumar Gaurav

December 18, 2023

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Joymoti Choudhury says that her family struggles to survive after being evicted from the Silsako wetland.
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In A Guwahati Wetland, As The Poor Are Removed, Big Buildings & Institutions, Also ‘Encroachers’, Untouched

As the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam removes “encroachments” on a Guwahati wetland, tribal communities living there said they had been paying property taxes and electricity for many years. State governments since 1991 allotted land on the wetland to companies and influential institutions. Today, 16 out of 17 of these lands, allotted by Congress governments, among others, the wife of a member of Parliament and a powerful businessman, are untouched as the poor are displaced.

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Mahmodul Hassan

December 17, 2023

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COP28: Historic agreement reached on fossil fuels, but developing nations unhappy

Lack of financial commitments and discrepancies between words and actions raise concerns about global commitment to climate action.

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Mrinali K

December 12, 2023

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COP28 opens in Dubai with landmark Loss and Damage Fund, setting an ambitious agenda for climate talks

Finance, adaptation, and fossil fuels are in focus, as countries strive to reach a comprehensive, impactful Global Climate Agreement.

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Mrinali K.

November 30, 2023

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How New Land Acquisition Procedure by Odisha Government Will Dilute Rights Of Nearly Half A Million Tribals

The revenue department of Odisha introduced a ‘comprehensive’ circular to compensate forest-dwelling tribes for acquisition of forest land they hold legal rights over. The land acquisition law protects the rights of forest-dwelling tribes, even if their claims under the forest rights law are pending, but experts say the circular makes it easier to appropriate forest land for non-forest purposes and exclude those enjoying livelihood rights on forest land as a community

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Anmol Gupta

November 30, 2023

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Congress focus on renewable energy in Rajasthan faces backlash on ground

While Ashok Gehlot’s government promises a “greener” future, there is simmering anger against renewable energy projects taking away agricultural land.

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November 21, 2023

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Ken-Betwa link: Villagers in Madhya Pradesh allege raw deal over compensation, livelihood loss

India’s first-ever river-linking project is under the spotlight ahead of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election on November 17.

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Nikhil Ghanekar

November 14, 2023

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Tribal communities in Madhya Pradesh face persecution for defending their rights

While tribal activists are arrested on false charges, forest officials are accused of colluding with timber smugglers.

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Priyansha Chouhan

November 11, 2023

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सांप्रदायिकता के रथ पर सवार हो संविधान को ‘सीधा’ करती उत्तराखंड सरकार

राज्य के वन विभाग द्वारा किए गए सर्वेक्षण से पता चला कि वनों में अनाधिकृत मंदिरों की संख्या मस्जिदों-मजारों से कई गुना ज्यादा है। सर्वेक्षण में जंगल क्षेत्र में 300 अनधिकृत मंदिर और आश्रम व करीब 35 अवैध मजार और मस्जिदों की गिनती की गयी।

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Ajay Prakash

November 7, 2023

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How MP Govt’s VanMitra Portal Threatens Tribal Rights Over Forest Land

While political parties woo tribals with promises of land titles ahead of the state elections, the VanMitra portal heightens their fear of dispossession

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November 5, 2023

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Chhattisgarh Adivasis Rue Loss Of Land

In a state where nearly every third person is a tribal, individual claimants protest receiving ownership of significantly less forest land under FRA than they applied for.

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Natasha Trivedi

October 27, 2023

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Developed Countries push to move L&D fund out of the UNFCCC

As the crucial WB and IMF board meetings get underway, developed countries look to shake the loss and damage fund loose from the tethers of the UNFCCC (and it’s principles)  

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October 9, 2023

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Two years after Assam evictions, hundreds of families wait for their promised land

Evicted for an agricultural project in September 2021, thousands of Bengali-speaking Muslim farmers survive in squalid shelters today.

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September 22, 2023

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Rich Countries' Proposal Can Block India, Pakistan From Accessing Loss and Damage Fund

The G20 Declaration significantly focused on Climate Finance! But rich nations' agenda threatens to prevent India from seeking money for climate related losses.

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September 7, 2023

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Purse Seine Ban in Tamil Nadu: A conflict over Coastal Resources

Fisherfolk's Livelihoods in Jeopardy as Purse Seine Ban takes effect in Tamil Nadu

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September 7, 2023

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Purse-seiners, trawlers, and the epic fight over fishing in Tamil Nadu

A ban on purse-seine fishing in Tamil Nadu has threatened thousands of fishers’ livelihoods – and they are refusing to give up without a fight

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September 6, 2023

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Another Place, Another Demolition: Daman, Run By A Modi Aide, Latest To Deal With Trauma Of Forced Eviction

Appointed by the union government, the administrator of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Praful Patel, ordered two demolition drives over in Daman in 2023 to remove houses deemed to be ‘illegal encroachments’ on government land, latest in a spate of demolitions in BJP-run or controlled state and union territories.

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September 6, 2023

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नूंह डेमोलिशन ड्राइव: न्यायालय आदेश और विधिक प्रक्रिया की अनदेखी कर सरकारी निरंकुशता का प्रमाण बना एक अभियान!

हरियाणा ने उच्च न्यायालय में दावा किया है कि नूंह में उसका विध्वंस अभियान केवल अनधिकृत निर्माणों के खिलाफ था, लेकिन तथ्य कुछ और ही बताते हैं।

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September 3, 2023

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Nuh demolitions: Bulldozer might is right

Even court directions were ignored in the frenzy to raze ‘unauthorised construction’ in Haryana's Nuh. On whose orders?

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September 1, 2023

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നൂഹിലെ ബുള്‍ഡോസര്‍ രാജ്: ഇടിച്ചുനിരപ്പാക്കിയ കോടതി വിധികളും ചട്ടങ്ങളും

ഒരു വിഭാഗത്തിനെതിരേ കൃത്യമായി ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്തു നടക്കുന്ന ബുള്‍ഡോസര്‍ യജ്ഞം എന്നാണ് പരാതി

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August 26, 2023

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How the demolition drive in Nuh went against court orders and due procedures

Haryana has claimed in the High Court that its demolition drive in Nuh was only against unauthorised constructions, but facts show otherwise.

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August 24, 2023

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Odisha’s ‘zero villages’ continue to struggle for benefits of welfare schemes

Odisha’s forest villages have been engaged in a struggle with the government for over two years to be recognised as revenue villages.

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July 12, 2023

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Rich Countries Continue To Dilute Responsibility as World Looks To Set New Climate Finance Goal

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June 10, 2023

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Swindled by State Inaction: Tribals in Kerala’s Attappady Want Their Land Back

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June 1, 2023

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After PMO’s Intervention, Power Ministry Drops the Idea of Decentralising Carbon Markets in India

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Field Notes: Fear & Fury In Delhi’s Demolition Sites

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May 17, 2023

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A power company illegally erected wind mills on tribal land in the Attappady Hills. The state government ordered the company to withdraw from there but that order has not yet been implemented.
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केरल में अपनी ही जमीन से क्यों बेदखल किए जा रहे हैं ये आदिवासी

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May 16, 2023

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Thousands Traumatised In New Delhi: As Law Is Ignored, Homes & Lives Are Torn Apart For G20 Summit

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May 7, 2023

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Energy major Suzlon has set up windmills on leased tribal land in Nallasingha village of Attappady block of Kerala. A high-level government committee has asked the land to be returned to the tribal people.
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Displaced by settlers: Tribal communities in Kerala’s Attappady block are being alienated from their land

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April 16, 2023

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After High Court Verdict, Thousands Fear Homelessness, As Dehradun Government Begins Illegal Evictions

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March 6, 2023

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Tribal Panel Invokes Special Powers to Evaluate States’ Implementation of Forest Rights Act

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February 27, 2023

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Farmers in Ramod village in Kotda Sangani tehsil in the western Gujarat district of Rajkot. They have filed complaints seeking corrections in their land titles, which they say are erroneous.
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How Gujarat’s Rural Land Digitisation Programme Was Botched, Starting A Fresh Trail Of Land Litigation

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December 8, 2022

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Future adrift: India’s Indigenous Meitei lose floating homestays

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December 6, 2022

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The Five Upshots of COP27 – and Its Principal Triumph

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November 23, 2022

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COP27: Adaptation Draft Text Drops Equity, Science Over Poorer Countries’ Protests

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November 18, 2022

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COP27: Poorer Countries Seek Bold Action, Richer Countries Try to Stall and Delay

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Radhika Chatterjee

November 17, 2022

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