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  • Zafar Imran, Le Monde diplomatique

    Climate Change in the Indian Farmers’ Protest

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 4, 2021  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    This article, written by Zafar Imran, originally appeared in Le Monde diplomatique.

    The ongoing farmers’ movement in India has taken the world’s largest democracy by storm. Hundreds of thousands from all over the country have laid siege to New Delhi for more than two months. As both the protestors and the government dig their heels in, the chances of confrontation and violence are increasing by the day.

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  • “Multilateralism is Back!” Climate Change, Equity, and 21st Century Diplomacy

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    From the Wilson Center  //  December 23, 2020  //  By Amanda King
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    “Climate change will upend the 21st century world order. From financial systems, migration patterns, and great power competition, to the potential unintended consequences of climate responses, and issues of inequity and the future of democracy, climate change will penetrate our systems, our relationships, and our lives in ways that we have yet to fully understand,” said Lauren Risi, Director of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, at a recent event co-hosted by the Wilson Center and adelphi. The panel discussion focused on two topics addressed in the recently launched 21st Century Diplomacy project—how efforts to address climate change will engage new modes of multilateralism and how to incorporate the increasingly urgent calls for a more equitable and just world.

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  • Climate Change Will Make the Brazilian Military’s Role More Difficult, Finds New Report

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    On the Beat  //  December 21, 2020  //  By Matthew Gallagher
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    “It is in Brazil’s interest to climate-proof the nation,” said Wilson Center Senior Fellow Sherri Goodman during a recent International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS) event. Referencing a new IMCCS  report, Climate and Security in Brazil, Goodman, who is also Secretary General for the IMCCS, said that Brazilian leaders ought to develop counter-deforestation and climate plans as critical elements of the national security agenda.

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  • “Climate is the Multilateral Challenge of the Moment”: Highlights from a Conversation on Climate Change, Multilateralism, and Equity

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    Friday Podcasts  //  December 18, 2020  //  By Matthew Gallagher

    12-16 Event Podcast Photo“After a period of populist nationalism…multilateralism is back, and climate is the multilateral challenge of the moment,” said David Lammy, a member of Parliament for Tottenham in the United Kingdom and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, in a recent 21st Century Diplomacy event, co-hosted by the Wilson Center and adelphi. The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is not a “reset,” but rather a catalytic moment for the international community precisely because of the pandemic and consequences for the global economy, he said. When you look at who has been left behind in countries like the United States and United Kingdom, and globally, who is at risk climate impacts, it is “black and brown people suffering all over the planet, and that is a call to arms,” said Lammy.

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  • Vanessa Nakate on Giving Weight to the Voices of Those Most Affected by Climate Change

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    Friday Podcasts  //  December 11, 2020  //  By Matthew Gallagher

    Vanessa Nakate_podcast image“We need to give more weight to the voices of people who are most affected by climate change,” says Vanessa Nakate, a prominent Ugandan climate activist, in this week’s Friday Podcast. At the local, regional, and global levels, Nakate’s work sheds light on the imperative for policymakers to value the lived experiences of oft-overlooked groups such as women, youths, and citizens of developing nations. “When I talk about climate justice, it is not something that I want for the future—it is something that I want right now, because our present is catastrophic,” she says.

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  • “An Idea Born of Desperation”: Simon Nicholson on Solar Radiation Management

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    Friday Podcasts  //  December 4, 2020  //  By Cindy Zhou

    Nicholson&Dabelko Podcast Image Thumbnail (1)“If solar radiation management were done well—that is, the science is right, the engineering is right, and the policy and governance frameworks around all of the stuff work—then solar radiation management could be a really important, positive contribution to humanity’s responding to climate change,” says Simon Nicholson, associate professor at American University’s School of International Service and co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment in this week’s Friday Podcast interview with ECSP senior advisor and Ohio University professor, Geoff Dabelko. “But, there are all kinds of risks associated with this endeavor.”

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  • New Constitution Could Help Chile Avert the Lithium Curse

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    December 3, 2020  //  By Matthew Gallagher
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    Chile is on the cusp of a new era. Just as its lithium—a common element of energy storage technology, which is itself a critical component of the clean energy transition—is experiencing a rise in global market demand, Chilean citizens have called for a new constitution.

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  • 21st Century Diplomacy: Foreign Policy is Climate Policy (Report & Project Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  October 1, 2020  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi & Alexander Carius

    This article is an excerpt from “21st Century Diplomacy: Foreign Policy is Climate Policy,” a new report by the Wilson Center and adelphi.

    Climate change will upend the 21st century world order. It will redefine how we live and work, and change the systems of production, trade, economics, and finance. Even now, in the midst of a global pandemic, it is clear that climate change will be the defining issue of this century. In fact, COVID-19 has only underscored the inadequacy of our responses to global crises and heightened the urgency of this call to action. 21st century diplomacy will have to raise climate ambition, shape the transformative systems change needed, and promote and facilitate new modes of multilateral collaboration.

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