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Indigenous Weather Understanding in Japanese Fishing Communities
"The Japanese climate is a mixture of continental and marine elements that are intimately connected to the topography of the territory. The mountainous nature of the territory and the latitudinal extent of the archipelago also produce considerable climatic differences between north and south and between the eastern Pacific side and the western sea of the Japanese archipelago..." – By Giovanni Bulian
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Climate Multilateralism Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
"The signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by 154 nations at the Rio “Earth Summit” in 1992 marked the beginning of multilateral climate negotiations. ..." – By Joana Castro Pereira and Eduardo Viola
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