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  • 8 Billion and Counting: Rethinking Rhetoric on Population and Choice

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 10, 2023  //  By Maanasa Chitti
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    The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 2023 State of the World Population (SWOP) Report offers a chance to reflect on what’s at stake in debates over global population. “The question is not whether the human population is too large or too small. The question is whether everyone can exercise their fundamental human right to choose the number and spacing of their children,” said Sarah Craven, Chief of the Washington Office of UNFPA at the virtual D.C. launch of the report at the Wilson Center on April 26, 2023.  

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  • Russia’s War in Ukraine: Green Policies in a New Energy Geopolitics

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 8, 2023  //  By Morgan Bazilian & Andreas Goldthau
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    Russia’s brutal aggression has wreaked devastation in Ukraine for more than a year. It has also forced a fundamental rethink of geopolitics. Central to that new thinking is the role of energy security and how to manage the insecurities created by the lopsided dependencies exposed by the conflict.

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  • China’s Climate Security Vulnerabilities

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 25, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    Climate change’s ripples reach every corner of the globe, but nowhere is their geopolitical impact more pronounced than in China’s relations with the United States. This is especially the case as the undisputed security risks posed to both nations by climate change become intertwined with broader arcs of political, economic, and military competition on both sides.

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  • Connecting the Dots: Gender Equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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    Dot-Mom  //  New Security Broadcast  //  March 15, 2023  //  By Sarah B. Barnes
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    In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, Sarah Barnes, Project Director for the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative met with Bridget Kelly, Director of Research for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at Population Institute to discuss the launch of Population Institute’s new report: Connecting the Dots, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights as Prerequisites for Global Gender Equality and Empowerment. On the episode Kelly, lead author of the Connecting the Dots report, shares findings from the report on the importance of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) agenda, how SRHR leads to gender equality, the power of and need for increased U.S. investment, and policy recommendations to fully realize the SRHR agenda and improve gender equality and empowerment.

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  • Deadlock in the Negotiation Rooms to Protect Global Oceans

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    China Environment Forum  //  November 10, 2022  //  By Erica Yunyi Huang

    Greenpeace together with the High Seas Alliance gather for a photo op outside the United Nations in New York to remind delegates that time is running out and demand they  agree a strong global ocean treaty.   Governments are meeting at the United Nations in New York this week to negotiate a new Global Ocean Treaty, which will determine the fate of the oceans.

    For decades, western multinational companies have been profiting by exploiting plant, animal, or microbial genetic resources obtained from less developed countries. Take the neem tree, for example. Since the 1990s, international companies have registered more than 70 patents on products derived from India’s “tree of life.” Yet these patents have prohibited local people from using these trees (as they had for centuries) to make cosmetics, fertilizers, and medicines.

    International companies have now turned their eyes to the high seas in a new hunt for genetic resources. Concerned they will be left out of the potentially profitable patents once again, developing nations are demanding equitable use and benefit sharing of genetic resources in ongoing global ocean treaty negotiations.

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  • Catastrophe and Catalyst: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister on His Nation’s Climate Tragedy

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    New Security Broadcast  //  September 30, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

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    On a recent visit to the Wilson Center, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari remarked on the historic nature of the monsoon-related floods that have submerged a huge swath of his country over the last several months. 

     “These are no normal monsoons and no normal floods,” said Zardari. “We are used to monsoons. We are used to floods. We have provincial mechanisms [and] national mechanisms to deal with such disasters. What we were not prepared for was for floods to descend from the sky.” 

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  • United Nations Advances Strategic Foresight: Breakdown or Breakthrough Scenarios?

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 5, 2022  //  By Steven Gale
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    Last September, Secretary-General António Guterres outlined the United Nation’s Our Common Agenda in a speech to the General Assembly. His remarks focused on the future of global cooperation for the next 25 years. It was imperative, he messaged, to recognize that our accelerated interconnectedness, and the formidable challenges we all face, can only be addressed through a reinvigorated multilateralism, with the United Nations at the core of collective member efforts. We must think big, act swiftly, and work effectively, he said, to reshape how we move forward today to achieve the goals of the UN declaration commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

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  • Redefining National Security

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 28, 2022  //  By Carol Dumaine
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    This article is adapted from an article previously published in Issues in Science and Technology. 

    As Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine continues, the world’s focus is rightfully on ending this conflict as soon as possible. But the global impact of a senseless war launched by a petro-dictator also calls for deeper reflection.  

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