Anna Schulz

Head of the Global Climate Law, Policy and Governance Programme at IIED. All views my own!

Anna Schulz
flipped into Water
Opinion | Which of the World’s Hundreds of Thousands of Aging Dams Will Be the Next to Burst?
The New York Times - Josh Klemm
The collapse of two dams in Libya, unleashing torrential floodwaters that the United Nations has said left at least 11,300 people dead and over 10,000 still missing, was both predicted and preventable. And they won’t be the last big dams to collapse unless we remove and repair some of the aging and …
Anna Schulz
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Libya Dams Were in Danger, Engineer Warned
The New York Times - Aaron Boxerman and James Glanz
It had been clear for years that the dams protecting Derna, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, were in danger of giving way. Torrential rains were not new. Decade after decade, they had pounded the area, washing away the soil that helped soak up water as it ran down from the dry hills above …
Anna Schulz
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Hundreds Feared Dead in Severe Libya Flooding
The New York Times - Isabella Kwai and Mohammed Abdusamee
Deadly floods swept through northeastern Libya over the weekend, with the top official in the region warning that the toll could exceed 2,000 dead as rescue teams searched for survivors. Later, a spokesman for authorities in that region cautioned that it was difficult to give an exact figure for …
Anna Schulz
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Biden says global warming topping 1.5 degrees in the next 10 to 20 years is scarier than nuclear war
CNBC - Catherine Clifford
The global temperature rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next two decades is scarier than a nuclear war, said President Joe Biden on Sunday …
Anna Schulz
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Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’
Al Jazeera
UN human rights chief highlights ‘environmental horror’ for many countries as fossil fuel projects continue unabated globally. Climate change is causing human rights emergencies around the world, the United Nations human rights chief says, specifically highlighting Iraq’s “spiralling damage” from …
Anna Schulz
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Climate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming
BBC News - By Matt McGrath
Tackling climate change needs a rapid transformation of the way our world works, travels, eats and uses energy, according to an important UN review. This is the first "global stocktake" to examine the efforts of countries to reduce planet-warming emissions since the Paris agreement was signed in …