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  • Security Links: An Emerging Congressional Common Ground on Climate Change?

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    July 26, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi
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    Earlier this month 46 House Republicans voted with Democrats to protect an amendment in the current National Defense Authorization Act that acknowledges that “climate change is a direct threat to the national security of the United States” and requires the secretary of defense to provide “a report on the vulnerability to military installations and combatant command requirements resulting from climate change over the next 20 years.”

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  • Backdraft #8: Simon Nicholson on Climate Engineering

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  July 21, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    Podcast-thumb8-reducedWhen the Paris Agreement set an ambitious goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the negotiators put climate engineering on the table, says Simon Nicholson, professor at American University, in this week’s episode of Backdraft. Once the purview of science fiction, a majority of the models run by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) required large-scale use of climate engineering technologies to keep additional warming below 2 degrees.

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  • Backdraft #7: Janani Vivekananda on What Renewable Energy Projects Can Learn From Oil, and Future-Proofing Humanitarian Responses

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  April 21, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    Janani-smallAs more and more development and humanitarian programs contend with climate-related problems, there are important lessons learned from past experience that should not be forgotten, says Janani Vivekananda, formerly of International Alert and now with adelphi, in this week’s episode of “Backdraft.”

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  • Backdraft #6: Jesse Ribot on Why It’s So Important for Climate Interventions to Work Through Local Democracy

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  April 7, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    Ribot2-smallIn a research project spanning more than two dozen case studies on environmental governance in 13 sub-Saharan African countries, Jesse Ribot, professor at the University of Illinois, and colleagues found that while many forest management projects claimed to be working with communities, they were in fact undermining local democracy in various ways.

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  • Backdraft #5: Ken Conca on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Water Conflict and Cooperation

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  March 24, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    Conca-smallIn international development, conflict is often used as shorthand for violent conflict, and avoiding conflict is considered a priority. But “it’s important to recognize that conflict is not always bad and cooperation is not always good,” says Ken Conca in this week’s episode of “Backdraft.”

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  • Backdraft #4: Edward Carr on Climate Response, Motivations, and the Value of Ethnographic Research

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  March 10, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    Carr-smallUnintended consequences from climate interventions are often the result of not understanding decision-making at a granular enough level, says Edward Carr in this week’s “Backdraft” episode.

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  • Backdraft Episode #3: Kimberly Marion Suiseeya on Voice, Justice, and Representation

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  February 24, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    kim-small“If we think sustainable development is the goal we want to achieve, we have to be radical in elevating those who have been traditionally excluded,” says Northwestern University’s Kimberly Marion Suiseeya in this week’s “Backdraft” episode. “We have to approach conservation and global environmental governance from the perspective of the invisible and the marginalized people.”

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  • Backdraft Episode #2: Stacy VanDeveer on the New Energy Economy and the Fate of Petro States

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  February 10, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    stacy-smallA “green economy,” an energy sector composed entirely of renewables, is the goal of many. But we haven’t thought out the full implications of that change, says Stacy VanDeveer, professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in this week’s “Backdraft” podcast.

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