The carbon footprint of the world’s one billion poorest people represents just 3 percent of the global total. Yet as climate change advances, poor communities are hardest hit. Not only do we have a responsibility to avoid doing harm to others, we must help them adapt.
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News updateThis Earth Day, more than 165 countries join together at the United Nations Headquarters to sign the historic climate change agreement reached in Paris last December.
StorySince she was a child, Suyapa Maldonado has made fighting for the most vulnerable her core mission—and not even hurricanes and the most powerful El Niño on record will make her waiver.
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StoryOnce a freedom fighter for his country, Rafiqul Alam has spent the last 40 years continuing to fight for his people - this time from poverty.
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