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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | February 10 – 14

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    Eye On  //  February 14, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Declining Biodiversity May Increase Risk of Future Pandemics (Mongabay)

    The COVID-19 pandemic that spread around the world in 2020 brought normal life to a standstill at many times in the past few years. But far from being a singular event, scientists and health experts warn that pandemics may become more common as biodiversity declines and spillover events become more likely.

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  • Mining for Change: Obert Bore on Human Rights and Development Amid Zimbabwe’s Mineral Boom

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    New Security Broadcast  //  February 12, 2025  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    As global interest in critical minerals heats up, countries like Zimbabwe—which holds Africa’s largest reserves of lithium—are facing new opportunities for investment and development. But these opportunities can also come with risks and challenges for producing countries. In this episode of New Security Broadcast, the Wilson Center’s Claire Doyle and Jennifer Nguyen are joined by Obert Bore, who serves as the Business & Human Rights Program Lead at the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association. Bore is an expert in international trade, Chinese investments in Africa, and natural resource governance, and has long worked to advance policy reforms to strengthen human rights protection for communities impacted by mining.

    A Chinese language (中文) version of this podcast is available on SoundCloud.”

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  • Beating the Backlash: Can Incremental Approaches Strengthen NGO Responses to Security-Based Migration Policies

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 4, 2025  //  By Jean-Pierre Murray

    On October 2, 2024, Dominican President Luis Abinader launched a large-scale deportation operation through the National Security and Defense Council. Framed as an “emergency” security measure to “protect national sovereignty and address migration challenges,” the operation aimed to deport 10,000 Haitian migrants every week.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | January 27 – 31

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    Eye On  //  January 31, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Declining Fish Stocks Threaten Lake Tanganyika Fishing Communities (Al Jazeera) 

    For the millions who live on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, fishing is a way of life that has sustained generations. However, recent declines in fish production in the world’s largest freshwater lake have devastated Tanzania’s fishermen and prompted questions of the sustainability of the decades-long practice.

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  • A Proposal for SDG 18: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 22, 2025  //  By Martin Nweeia & Pamela Peeters

    Fifty-three years have passed since the 1972 United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that led to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Yet a recent UN report describes the global efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) created to articulate aims and track progress over the past decade as “alarmingly insufficient.”

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | January 13 – 17

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    Eye On  //  January 17, 2025  //  By Angus Soderberg

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    The Success of Community-based Conservation in Africa (Yale 360)

    Across Africa, herders once seen as threats to wildlife have now become vital conservationists. In a transformative shift from “fortress conservation” to community stewardship, they are protecting iconic species like elephants and lions as they coexist with their livestock.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | January 6 – 10

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    Eye On  //  January 10, 2025  //  By Angus Soderberg

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program 

    Room for Justice in Vietnam’s Energy Transition? (The Diplomat)

    Vietnam’s crackdown on environmental leaders such as Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng on disputed charges raises significant concerns about human rights, transparency, and civil society’s role in its energy transition. These arrests have garnered international attention, but Vietnam’s government argues that they had nothing to do with environmental work. And while Hoàng and other activists have been released, their work remains curtailed. The message is clear: you’re not welcome here.

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  • Low-Carbon Transitions: A Spur (and a Solution) to Colonial Violence?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 7, 2025  //  By Erik Post

    At the recent G20 meeting in June 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres gave an ominous warning: “Unless we limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, spiraling disasters will devastate every economy.” Guterres implored governments to “speed-up the just transition from fossil fuels to renewables,” and declared that “the end of the fossil fuel age is inevitable.”

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