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  • China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Powering a Low or High Carbon Future?

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  September 28, 2023  //  By Chuyu Liu
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    China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can significantly affect the country’s domestic and overseas energy transition and decarbonization agenda. Electricity projects in China’s BRI investments, contrary to popular impressions of being part of a monolithic “project of the century,” have divergent implications for the host country’s shift away from coal-based power plants.  

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  • Shifting the Climate Security Narrative: How the Department of Defense Can Lead

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 18, 2023  //  By Cara Condit
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    In 2021, US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III referred to climate change as an “existential threat”—a term traditionally reserved for nuclear weapons. Yet two years and several strategic plans later, tangible progress to mitigate and prepare for this threat remains elusive, especially on the international scale where the greatest impacts could be realized.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | September 11 – 15

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    Eye On  //  September 15, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Treading Water: Why Were Libya’s Floods So Devastating? 

    This week’s devastating disasters in Morocco and Libya underscore the cascading effects of environmental shocks (and in the case of Libya, climate-related shocks), as well as the cross-sectoral response needed to comprehensively address the damage. 

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | September 4 – 8

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    Eye On  //  September 8, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    Peace and Prosperity in the Sahel: Climate Security is Key

    Liptako-Gourma is a landlocked region located on the borders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. It possesses significant mineral, water, and biodiversity resources, and strategically positioned for both economic opportunities and cultural exchange.

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  • Ukraine’s Environment Is a Victim of Russian Geopolitics. (Again.)

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 5, 2023  //  By Caroline Kapp
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    Senior Western officials have received “sobering” reports on the counteroffensive  in Ukraine. As both sides continue to rain artillery shells and missiles across the country, Ukrainian forces have struggled to make progress on the front lines in both the south and the east.

    Meanwhile, a different but related struggle is occurring across the country. Ukraine’s environment is being poisoned by the by-products of this war; polluting the land, water, and air, and exposing humans, plants, and animals to high levels of toxins. 

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  • “You Will Find Your People Here” with Dr. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Clare Loveday

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    New Security Broadcast  //  August 29, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff

    Panel-1_-Welcome-to-Johannesburg_Designed-by-Awo-TsegahOn today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Director Lauren Risi and Distinguished Fellow Dr. Blair Ruble talk with Clare Loveday and Dr. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato about their collaborative installation, “You Will Find Your People Here,” currently on view at La Biennale di Venezia. Loveday is a Johannesburg-based composer, and Kihato is an urban sociologist who specializes in gender, migration, and governance; they worked in concert with pianist, Mareli Stolp, and Ghanian artist, Awo Tsegah, to bring the installation to life at the Biennale.

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  • China’s Critical Mineral Model in Latin America

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 24, 2023  //  By Gregory Wischer & Juan Pablo Villasmil
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    The great power competition underway between the United States and China has a ripple effect in each nation’s neighborhood. As the United States prepares for possible conflict seven thousand miles away in the Taiwan Strait, China is expanding its economic influence in Latin America.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | July 10 – 14

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    Eye On  //  July 14, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    Rough Waters: Sri Lanka’s Fishermen Face Climate Challenges and Economic Woes

    Close to 2.4 million Sri Lankans are employed in that nation’s fisheries, and the bounty of its seas and freshwater bodies make up close to half of the country’s animal-based protein. But now the livelihood that has sustained these workers for generations faces growing constraints.

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