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Climate Change & HIV Are Parallel Causes

It was an honor of a lifetime to help lead a global public relations project with the United Nations Foundation on behalf of the Nobel Peace Prizewinning United Nations

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The work occurred during the almost two-year run-up to the Paris Climate Treaty Accord that was triumphantly signed by nearly 200 countries in December of 2015.

Part of our task was to help the nearly 800 unpaid UNIPCC climate scientists from around the world explain their groundbreaking Fifth Assessment Report, a thorough examination about the state of the Earth’s climate to the media and public prior to Paris. The UNIPCC, established in 1997, has so far prepared five massive reports since its inception to inform world leaders prior to global U.N. climate conventions. Before the Paris accords, we were able to help scientists speak in

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