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Additional Resources and Alternative Perspectives

Interested to learn more about this week’s topic? We have selected some materials for you. These resources consist of introductory information, in-depth texts, case studies and challenging counter perspectives.

Introductions and Definitions

• protesting climate change, young people take to streets in a global strike, Somini Sengupta, new york times (2019)
• migration, immigration, and climate change, Re-Imagining Migration
• Climate Time Machine, NASA
• The inside story of the Paris climate agreement | Christiana Figueres, TED (2016)

Relevant Research

• Climate Action Tracker
• What is the Paris Agreement?, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2020)

Additional Contexts

• What does 1.5C mean in a warming world?, Matt McGrath for  BBC, (2018)
• It’s time for action’: Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier to speak at UN forum, Adina Bresge for National Post, (2019)
• Moving Stories: The voices of people who move in the context of environmental change, Climate and Migration Coalition

Other Perspectives

•  Coronavirus Has Caused a Drop in Emissions. Don’t Celebrate Yet, Nylah Burton for Vice (2020)
• It’s not just Greta Thunberg: why are we ignoring the developing world’s inspiring activists?, Chika Unigwe  for The Guardian (2019)
• sharing the spotlight: why indigenous climate activism stays in the shadows, Andrew Ha for The Ubyssey Magazine (2020)