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Climate Change: Global Institutions versus Local Actions

Climate Change Global Institutions versus Local Actions Tony Djogo Climate changes, global warming, carbon markets, water issues, deforestation, poverty alleviation, and all other related and pertinent contemporary and interlocking issues have been in the heated debate nowadays. Many donors and governmental institutions have poured much money into research, policy dialogue and development, meetings, and capacity building. How could we really be convinced that human beings can control nature and mitigate climate change while they have destroyed the environment? Humans have greedily exploited natural resources with their political, economic, or financial powers? In the 1970s, there were heated debates about the future of our earth, with several concepts proposed for protecting the environment, such as sustainable development. The more research conducted, the more discussions organized, and the more policies developed for protecting the environment, the more degraded forest, land, a