Climate Change
Photographers document people forced to leave home due to climate change
In 2009, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer set out to put faces to the environmental damage caused by rising global temperatures. Some 16 years later, the photographer-couple has followed up with “DISPLACED,” a portrait series examining the lives of those forced to move due to climate change. Host Marco Werman speaks to Braschler and Fischer about the people at the center of their project.
As COP30 ends, a closer look at a major source of emissions: agriculture
This year’s COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil, highlighted food, forests and land as key topics to be addressed. One sector that crosses across all these is agriculture, which is responsible for about one-third of global carbon emissions. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler discusses how agriculture and climate change are intertwined, with the UN FAO’s climate director, Kaveh Zahedi.
A decade after the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the treaty’s architect looks back at its legacy
As diplomats, scientists and activists from around the globe convene in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and one of the architects of the Paris Agreement.
New play ‘Kyoto’ looks at the global agreement that first aimed to curb greenhouse gas emissions
As the world faces stronger and more frequent storms, a new play honors the extensive discussions that led to the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, which brought world leaders together to address greenhouse gas emissions.