How UN science reports and policymaking understate the threats of climate change. International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failure are how climate-science knowledge has been produced and utilised by the United Nation's twin climate bodies - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - and how those organisations function.
Most Palestinians contend that it does not really matter who wins an Israeli election. Labour, they argue, may be slightly less rigid than Likud, but its practice has been just as callous, and a good deal more expansionary. Moreover, the Labour face of Israel is more easily accepted in the West, and that, argue many Palestinians, makes it more difficult to focus international pressure on Israel to withdraw from the 1967-occupied territories and recognize Palestinian…
