{"id":7851,"date":"2022-11-14T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T10:45:43","slug":"cubas-life-task-combatting-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubas-life-task-combatting-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This week on the podcast Mick and Clare are joined by Dr. Helen Yaffe, coproducer of the documentary “Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change.” They discuss Cuba’s climate change adaptation and mitigation plan “tarea vida” and how Cuba is dealing with climate change despite the US sanctions regime and blockade. Find out more about the campaign to defeat the extraterritorial effects of the US blockade at 1C4Cuba.eu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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