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  • Reporters Predict Contentious Year Ahead for Environment and Energy

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 18, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    With the Obama Administration moving forward on emissions reductions, the deadline for drafting the Sustainable Development Agenda, and a highly anticipated global climate summit in Paris, 2015 promises to be a crucial year for climate policy. “In many ways, last year was the year of building momentum, and this is the year of getting the work done,” said Lisa Friedman, deputy editor of ClimateWire, at the Wilson Center on January 5. [Video Below]

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  • Eric Chu on Translating Climate Adaptation Theory to Action on the Local Level

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 13, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    “Adaptation is very theoretical. When you talk about ‘resilience,’ you draw these Venn diagrams and you draw these really complex issues, but at least at the IPCC level, we didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about what people were actually doing,” says Eric Chu in this week’s podcast.

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  • Integrated Development, Focus on Empowerment Builds Resilience in Nepal

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 5, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    From the mountains and foothills of the Himalayas to the Terai plains, climate change is rapidly changing life in Nepal. Many communities however, are not strangers to environmental stress; for decades, rapid population growth alongside agriculture and fuelwood collection have degraded land and diminished forests. [Video Below]

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  • Robin Bronen: To Help Alaskans Adapt, Make it Easier to Relocate

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 30, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    “Human rights and climate change are completely interlinked,” says Robin Bronen in this week’s podcast, and “climate change is happening in Alaska faster than anywhere else on the planet.”

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  • New Data Explorer Explains Assumptions Behind Population Projections

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    Eye On  //  January 26, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
    Montevideo, Uruguay from International Space Station

    Population projections undergird many important policy decisions, from the U.S. government’s Feed the Future program to the Sustainable Development Goals. But they’re not as straightforward as they appear. Demographers often base their estimates on complicated assumptions that aren’t obvious to the end user.

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  • David Lewis: To Avoid Reinforcing Status Quo, Focus on Understanding Livelihood Systems

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 16, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    As the idea of resilience has received more attention from policymakers as a guiding principle for climate change response and development, so too has it garnered more criticism, says David Lewis in this week’s podcast. By implying a “natural” return to a previous condition, resilience thinking could inadvertently promote limited policies that don’t go as far as they could in aiding those most at-risk.

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  • Chernor Bah: Girls Invisible in Most Youth Development Policies

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 9, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    “Youth in many countries is synonymous [with] masculinity,” says Chernor Bah in this week’s podcast. “Across governments – and I’ve looked at a lot of youth policies – girls are invisible.”

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  • Living Through Extremes: Livelihood Systems Key to Effective, Empowering Resilience Measures

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 7, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
    Living Through Extremes

    As climate change upends established patterns of life, resilience – the ability of social and ecological systems to mitigate, endure, and adapt to short-term shocks and long-term stressors – has become a buzzword in development and humanitarian circles. [Video Below]

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