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Kathleen Mogelgaard

Kathleen Mogelgaard

Kathleen Mogelgaard is a writer and analyst on population and the environment, and a consultant for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program.

She is principal of KAM Consulting, LLC, specializing in research, analysis, and strategic communications at the intersection of human and environmental well-being. Her recent work has focused on population dynamics, climate change, food security, and energy access.

She teaches at the University of Maryland, and has worked with the World Resources Institute, Oxfam America, Population Action International, Aspen Institute, U.S. Climate Action Network, Population Reference Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development, and others. Her writing has appeared in Grist, The Huffington Post, RH Reality Check, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She holds Masters degrees in natural resources and public policy from the University of Michigan.

Email: Kathleen.KAMConsulting@gmail.com

  • Want to Ward Off the Apocalypse? Invest in Women’s Health and Rights

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 27, 2019  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard & Robert Engelman
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    This article by Kathleen Mogelgaard and Robert Engelman originally appeared on Thomson Reuters Foundation News.

    World population continues to grow. The latest UN projections, released this week, indicate that we will add another 2 billion people to the planet by 2050 and 3 billion by the end of the century.  While population growth is ebbing in many countries—and even starting to contract in a few—population growth in some countries remains brisk, if not breakneck. 

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  • A Firm Foundation: Contraception, Agency, and Women’s Economic Empowerment

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  July 10, 2018  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard

    According to a raft of experts, empowering women to be economic actors would change quite a bit. The UN Secretary General set up a High-Level Panel on it; Melinda Gates keeps talking about it; and the World Bank and Ivanka Trump recently launched an initiative to unlock billions in financing for it. Targets related to women’s economic empowerment cut across multiple Sustainable Development Goals, including advancing equal rights to economic resources, doubling the agricultural productivity and incomes of women who are small-scale farmers, and achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all women.

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  • Preparing the Next National Climate Assessment: An Opportunity to Engage

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    From the Wilson Center  //  October 19, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Global Change Research Act “to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.” Under this mandate, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was born, an innovative, cross-cutting research initiative that brings together the science arms of 13 federal agencies working on global change issues, including the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Energy, Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and others.

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  • What Next? Climate Mitigation After Paris

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 30, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    The Paris Climate Agreement sets forth a bold goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, keep global temperature rise below 2.0 degrees Celsius, and employ best efforts toward no more than 1.5 degrees of warming. It also sets forth a new set of rules to achieve these goals. [Video Below]

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  • What Next? Climate Adaptation After Paris

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 8, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In December 2015, representatives from 195 nations gathered in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. After two weeks of intensive negotiations, countries approved an agreement that charts new territory for global cooperation to address climate change. [Video Below]

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  • Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 8, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In the course of development, most countries undergo a demographic transition. Health conditions improve and mortality rates decline, causing rapid population growth and a relatively high proportion of young people. Over time, if fertility declines, as it has in most places, growth slows and there is a period when the proportion of very young “dependents” shrinks in comparison to the working age population. This moment represents an opportunity for a “demographic dividend” – an economic boom as a comparatively large cohort of the total population moves through their most economically productive years. [Video Below]

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  • Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean (Report)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  October 14, 2015  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    Global climate trends indicate that our planet will continue warming into the next century, leading to more extreme climate conditions. The Latin America and Caribbean region is vulnerable to some of the most challenging aspects of climate change – sea-level rise, changes in precipitation, glacial melting, spreading of disease, and extreme weather events.

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  • Reporting on the Spaces Between: How to Cover Climate, Population, and Health Connections

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 13, 2015  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In his 2007 best-seller, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman explored what would happen to the planet if the human race suddenly vanished – the gradual deterioration of the built environment, the geologic fossilization of our everyday stuff, and the ecological processes that would rebound and thrive without continual and growing human pressure. [Video Below]

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