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Context is the Foundation’s award-winning media platform, providing news and analysis around three of the most significant and interconnected issues of our time: climate change, the effects of technology on society, and socio-economic inequality. Our human-centered journalism is delivered across a range of formats — from in-depth stories to videos and podcasts to newsletters.
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New UN figures reveal huge cost of drought and desertification
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COP29 didn't deliver; it's time to look beyond nation states
Mark Watts is the executive director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action…