By the fourth day of my one-week trip to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, I was coughing every few minutes. The soot and chemicals that float through the air of one of the world’s most air quality-compromised cities are inescapable for residents. Smog-producing emissions are one result of …
From my workstation in a fourth-floor office of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, a 50-foot-long bank of windows offers sweeping views of the Old Bangkok district: Alongside oil-slicked canals and rain-stained shop houses, modern Buddhist temples adorned with glass-mosaic facades and horn-like golden …
By Judson Peck, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 “Mitigating and adapting to climate change is entirely compatible with pursuing development.” – Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator UNDP and Climate Change Efforts to tackle climate change have largely been focused on isolated, distinct, and often competing goals and actions on mitigation (lowering emissions) or adaptation …
