El cambio climático
Is climate inaction a human rights violation?
In 2017, due in part to conditions primed by a warming climate, wildfires ravaging Portugal accounted for more than half of all the burned area in the European Union.
John Letzing
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Este artículo se publicó por primera vez en junio de 2021 y se actualizó en junio de 2023.
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