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  • The Climate Solutions That Play Double-Duty
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  • New Security Broadcast | Clionadh Raleigh on Reframing “Climate Security”

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    New Security Broadcast  //  June 24, 2022  //  By Arvind Geetha Christo

    Clionadh ThumbnailAbout half the world’s population lives in an area of active or latent conflict. And few corners of the planet are not feeling the effects of climate change. But in this week’s New Security Broadcast, researcher Clionadh Raleigh cautions against drawing too strong a connection between the two phenomena in an interview with ECSP Director Lauren Risi.

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  • Community and Collaboration: Maternal Mental Health in the Infant Formula Crisis

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  June 22, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    The infant formula shortage and the COVID-19 pandemic have added fuel to an already existing fire in maternal mental health in the United States.

    As Adrienne Griffen, Executive Director of Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance pointed out at a recent event on the COVID-19 pandemic, maternal mental health, and policy solutions, “maternal mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, and other issues, affect 1 in 5 pregnant or postpartum people [in the U.S.].”

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  • Public Participation: A Counter to Climate Policy Backdraft?

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 21, 2022  //  By Kidan Araya

    People carry their belongings while walking in a street flooded by the waters from the Niger river that flooded in the Kirkissoye neighbourhood in Niamey on August 27, 2020. (Photo by BOUREIMA HAMA / AFP)

    A new contribution in a continuing series examining “backdraft“—the unintended consequences of climate change responses—and how its effects might be anticipated and minimized to avoid conflict and promote peace.

    In an increasingly unpredictable world of pandemics, conflict, and disasters, climate change is often at the center of conversations about the instability of global affairs. From California wildfires to droughts across East Africa, the role of climate cannot be ignored in any analysis of global unpredictability. And citizens around the world know it. Growing global public support for governments to aggressively act on climate change has led to an increase in policy action on climate issues.

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  • Plastic River: Following the Waste That’s Choking the Chao Phraya

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  June 16, 2022  //  By Wanpen Pajai & Mailee Osten-Tan (Photographer)
    illustration of plastic waste flowing through the river, courtesy of Neutron T / The Third Pole.

    This article is a collaboration between The Third Pole and the China Environment Forum’s Turning the Tide on Plastic Waste in Asia initiative. Read more plastic pollution articles and webinars from the Wilson Center here. This article will be cross-posted on The Third Pole.

    The Chao Phraya River is born from mountain streams in northern Thailand, flowing hundreds of kilometers south to the sea. By the time the river travels through Bangkok and empties into the Gulf of Thailand, it is carrying huge quantities of plastic waste – an estimated 4,000 metric tons every year, equal to the weight of 26 blue whales. The plastic clogs the river along its course, drastically impacting communities and the waterway’s ecology.

    The Third Pole traveled from the Chao Phraya’s beginnings to the sea to explore what’s happening to one of Southeast Asia’s most important rivers.

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  • The Safe Delivery App Puts Better Maternal and Newborn Outcomes in the Palms of Health Workers’ Hands

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    Dot-Mom  //  Eye On  //  June 15, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    Reducing maternal mortality is key to promoting population health. It is also a main priority of the UN General Assembly’s Sustainable Development Goals. And the reasons for concern are clear. Globally, 800 women and 6,500 infants die during pregnancy and birth every day. More than 94 percent of these deaths occur in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs).

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  • A Climate Finance Rethink Can Help Those Most Impacted by Climate Change

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 14, 2022  //  By Liane Schalatek
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    A new contribution in a continuing series examining “backdraft“—the unintended consequences of climate change responses—and how its effects might be anticipated and minimized to avoid conflict and promote peace.

    The massive floods, heat waves, raging wildfires, and devastating droughts of 2021 brought the present reality of climate change’s catastrophic impacts on people and ecosystems home to our doorsteps.

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  • Extracting Opportunity in the Renewable Energy Transition

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 13, 2022  //  By Katelyn Rousch
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    Few people can name from memory the materials required for wind turbines, photovoltaic panel semiconductors, and electric car batteries. The list is too long, but among the more recognizable minerals used in renewable production are aluminum, lithium, cobalt, iron, copper, lead, and nickel.

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  • Reclaiming Community Identity through Opera: Voices of Zion

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 10, 2022  //  By Blair A. Ruble

    New Music-Theatre  Voices of ZionCommunity resilience rests on shared experience and history. And while lectures, historic markers, and walking tours commemorate what has come before, only the arts can bring those events—and the people who made them happen—back to life.

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