Constance Okollet

Technology may prevent the worst climate scenarios, but how do we adapt now?

Ask a room full of experts for their solutions on addressing the climate crisis, and talk of promising new technologies often takes center stage.

Solar panels

Top 4 promising solutions by sector to fight rising emissions

Mitigating climate change by significantly reducing carbon emissions this decade will require big transitions in all sectors, from energy and transportation to construction and industry.

Aerial view of Warraber (Sue) Island, Torres Strait

How courts can help protect human rights amid climate change

A growing number of legal cases around the world have proved successful in getting governments to commit to climate action, but in the U.S. barriers to this strategy remain.

Tropical Cyclone Winston hits Fiji

When it comes to addressing global climate impacts, who should pay?

In 2016, Tropical Storm Winston hit the Pacific island of Fiji as the strongest recorded storm ever to make landfall in the Southern Hemisphere.

Tia Kennedy with her dog wading in stream

Why this Indigenous rights activist does not take clean water for granted

Across Canada, millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap. But Indigenous activist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted.

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan in New Zealand

Climate change hits disabled and Indigenous communities hard. Kera Sherwood-O’Regan wants their voices heard.

When Kera Sherwood-O’Regan was young, her parents gathered the pito (umbilical cord) that had nurtured her in the womb, and, per tradition, buried it on sacred coastal grounds in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand, alongside the remains of her ancestors.

Yeb Saño sitting in front of mural

To prevent future death and destruction, Yeb Saño is confronting the human rights violations that fuel climate change

For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.