In Baghdad, the arguments usually start off small, says Marama Habib, a long-time resident of the Iraqi capital. “In the village, like the one I come from, people do not accept strangers sitting outside their property or on their walls,” explains the journalist, who lives in Baghdad’s affluent Karada neighborhood but is originally from a small town outside...Read More

The world is falling behind on lowering global carbon emissions.  We only have a narrow chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (IPCC, Sixth Assessment Report) or as the United Nations Secretary-General says, “our world needs climate action on all fronts – everything, everywhere, all at once.” The latter is the best introduction to UNECE’s...Read More