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May 2024
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Nisreen Elsaim talks about the interconn...

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Nisreen Elsaim Climate and Youth Activists talks and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow talks about the complex interconnection between Climate Change, armed conflict and involuntary migration and how better governance, fresh ideas of younger generations and more global responsibility by wealthier nations, can bring hope in an otherwise depressing situation.




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