Climate: A key contributor to conflict?

Guest blog by Steve Trent, Executive Director, Environmental Justice Foundation

It is increasingly evident that climate change is a global environmental crisis. A warming planet means loss of sea ice, rising sea levels and longer and more intense heat waves.  However, what we often forget are the devastating impacts that climate change can have at an individual, human level. As stated by Dr Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, and Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, “Climate change is a human story. (more…)