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Jul 30, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Rachel Kyte
The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has made an urgent call for a global action plan to tackle extreme heat. His recent speech in New York came as the average temperature of the Earth’s surface has broken records twice and followed 12 consecutive months as the warmest months ever. Extreme heat is how most people experience the impacts of climate change. It kills half a million people a year – about 30 times more than tropical cyclones, as Guterres noted.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Rachel Kyte
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
climatechangenews.com | Rachel Kyte
Rachel Kyte is professor of practice in climate policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. With spring in full bloom, the world’s finance ministers, development and financial leaders, and philanthropists met for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings in Washington, DC last week. In their midst, Brazil, the current president of the G20, insisted on a balanced focus between ending poverty and food insecurity and combating climate change.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
lse.ac.uk | Rachel Kyte
LSE Player is home to the latest films and podcasts from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Here you can watch videos on cutting edge research, find the award-winning LSE IQ podcast, and listen to more than 5,000 public event recordings featuring some of the world’s leading thinkers.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
apg-wi.com | Rachel Kyte
THE CONVERSATION — Reading down the lengthy final agreement of the COP28 United Nations climate conference held in December 2023, you'll go a long way before finding a strong, active verb. The lengthy recitation of climate impacts "notes with concern" and occasionally with "significant concern" glaring gaps in countries' current policies. But while countries volunteered pledges to act, they were less keen to have those pledges framed as binding agreements in the final text.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
greenbuildingadvisor.com | Rachel Kyte |Kiley Jacques
Reading down the lengthy final agreement of the COP28 United Nations climate conference held in December 2023, you’ll go a long way before finding a strong, active verb. The lengthy recitation of climate impacts “notes with concern” and occasionally with “significant concern” glaring gaps in countries’ current policies. But while countries volunteered pledges to act, they were less keen to have those pledges framed as binding agreements in the final text.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
theparisnews.com | Rachel Kyte
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
dnronline.com | Rachel Kyte
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Reading down the lengthy final agreement of the COP28 United Nations climate conference held in December 2023, you’ll go a long way before finding a strong, active verb. The lengthy recitation of climate impacts “notes with concern” and occasionally with “significant concern” glaring gaps in countries’ current policies.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
caledonianrecord.com | Rachel Kyte
Reading down the lengthy final agreement of the COP28 United Nations climate conference held in December 2023, you'll go a long way before finding a strong, active verb. The lengthy recitation of climate impacts "notes with concern" and occasionally with "significant concern" glaring gaps in countries' current policies. But while countries volunteered pledges to act, they were less keen to have those pledges framed as binding agreements in the final text.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Rachel Kyte
Exchanging gifts with family and friends can become fraught with contradictory emotions. Instead of gratitude, the recipients of expensive gifts may wind up feeling indebted to the givers. And the givers can have regrets too. The same kinds of complicated motivations and expectations can sour relations between big donors and the institutions they support. This dynamic has been playing out in a very public fashion lately with some high-profile donors to prestigious U.S. universities.
