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  • Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Islands as the Vanguard of Climate Adaptation

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    From the Wilson Center  //  October 25, 2016  //  By Lynae Bresser

    “Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and it calls for a comprehensive and cooperative international approach like we’ve never seen,” said Jainey Bavishi, associate director for climate preparedness at the White House Council on Environmental Policy, at the Wilson Center on October 5. “The leadership of the island nations is essential; they punch well above their weight on this issue.”

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  • What’s Next for the Environment at the UN? Bringing Rights to the Fore, Says Ken Conca

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    October 13, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null
    UNGA

    The United Nations has made significant progress since the Stockholm Conference of 1972 in putting the environment on the global agenda. Indeed, the environment plays a major role in two of the largest UN initiatives today: the Paris climate accord and the Sustainable Development Goals. But in a new brief for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, Wilson Center Fellow Ken Conca writes that the traditional approach to environmental issues is running up against its limits.

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  • “Loss and Damage” and “Liability and Compensation” – What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?

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    September 2, 2016  //  By Cara Thuringer

    When wildfires become unstoppable, consuming forests, farmlands, communities, and anything else in their path, how will those affected cope? When typhoons slam coastal populations, dumping over a foot of rain in a single event, who will be there to help mop up? When seas rise up, drowning centuries-old communities, where will the displaced go?

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  • Africa’s Regional Powers Are Key to Climate Negotiations – But Will They Cooperate?

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 15, 2016  //  By Michael Byron Nelson
    Durban

    Most African states are more vulnerable and less prepared to address climate change challenges than the rest of the world. This observation is supported by a wide variety of sources, including the Climate Vulnerability Index and the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index. And in fact Africans and their political leaders frequently observe that this crisis, manufactured in the developed world, disproportionately affects their continent. During a meeting of the African Union in 2007, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called climate change “an act of aggression” by the rich against the poor.

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  • Military Leaders Urge South Asian Countries to Put Aside Animosities in Face of Common Climate Threat

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    July 6, 2016  //  By Sreya Panuganti
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    Despite a long history of confrontation and simmering tensions, three senior retired military leaders from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India urge the nations of South Asia to unite around a common rising threat in a new report.

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  • Climate Policy vs. Climate Ethics? A Debate on Justice and Our Global Future

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 5, 2016  //  By Cara Thuringer
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    As the international community looks to the Paris climate agreement and beyond, a key question emerges: Will strong ethical arguments or pragmatic national interest lead to a safe and sustainable future? Can these two perspectives coexist? [Video Below]

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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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  • How to Translate Paris Pledges Into Action? Regulatory Frameworks, Says World Bank’s Grzegorz Peszko

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    Friday Podcasts  //  June 24, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples
    Peszko

    Nearly six months after the Paris climate agreement, the international community’s attention has shifted from celebration to implementation. Governments have begun outlining climate pledges in the form of intended nationally determined contributions, or INDCs – which are fast becoming nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, as they begin influencing policy.

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