NEW YORK — Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to humanity, one that appears increasingly likely to reduce global standards of living dramatically within our lifetime, and cause untold damage in the longer term.

Perhaps no issue on the global agenda is more susceptible to manipulation by grandstanding demagogues than refugees and migrants.“Us” versus “them” is a timeless if irresponsible unifier, used throughout history to obscure our common humanity by those with dangerously self-servin

As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labour would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look back in fear.“They are wondering if they will ever step into those shoes again,” my mother explained. More th

Seventy years ago, the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II.

Current disaster-risk levels are alarming. The cost of damage to commercial and residential buildings worldwide is averaging $314 billion each year, with the private sector bearing as much as 85 per cent of that price tag. At the same time, a new United Nations report shows tha