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  • Answering the Amazon’s Call: Can the Private Sector Mobilize for its Protection?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 28, 2022  //  By Harriet Alice Taberner
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    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election on October 30, 2022—and his appearance at the COP27 summit on November 16—have put protecting the Amazon basin back on the agenda. Speaking at a Wilson Center event on November 4, Iván Duque Marquez, Former President of the Republic of Colombia and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center, highlighted why it was vital to counter the threat to this magnificent biome: “The Amazon is the most biodiverse area in the planet. The Amazon River discharges in one hour the same amount of fresh water that is consumed in a year by 7000 million people; and, at the same time, the Amazon in terms of size is twice the size of the EU and is larger than the United States without Alaska.”

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  • One Earth, one security space: from the 1972 Stockholm Conference to Stockholm+50 and beyond

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 22, 2022  //  By David Michel
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    This article was originally published by the Stockholm Environment Institute.

    The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment marked a watershed in world environmental politics. Gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, the international community collectively recognized that the technologies and economic models that enable modern development were also driving unsustainable environmental degradation, compromising the vital natural systems on which human well-being depends.

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  • Creating a Just Transition in Green Minerals: A New Video from the Wilson Center and its Partners

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 4, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle & Chris Collins
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    We need minerals to build the solar panels, wind turbines, and other technologies that will decarbonize our economies—and we need a lot of them. The World Bank estimates that demand for lithium, cobalt, and graphite could jump by as much as 500 percent by 2050. Yet mining for these resources has had a fraught history, and it continues to be associated with a hefty list of human rights and conflict risks, including  violence, child labor, poor working conditions, land rights abuses, environmental damage and pollution, and a lack of community participation.

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  • Investing in Women and Girls is Central to Addressing Root Causes of Migration from Guatemala

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 1, 2022  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In recent years, a growing proportion of migrants at the US southern border have come from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. This surge of migrants from Central America has prompted the U.S. government to seek to better understand and address the root causes of migration from the region. One substantive response came in July 2021, under Executive Order 14010, when the Biden-Harris Administration released what has become known as the Root Causes Strategy. The White House pledged to commit $4 billion over four years on efforts to address drivers of irregular migration from these three countries.

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  • The Complex Dance Around China’s Overseas Projects

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  October 6, 2022  //  By Alvin Camba & Victoria Chonn Ching
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    China dominates the world in its overseas development finance into power plants, mines, dams, and other infrastructure. However, while many projects sail through, a good many get stalled. The results have less to do with Beijing and more with the strength of the host country partners. There is a complex dance between governments, elites, and bureaucrats to win the best “deal” with China, including Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. These deals may benefit not just the economy, but also may empower one of these three actors. 

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  • Protecting Human Rights in DRC Cobalt Mines: A U.S. Priority in a Green Transition

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 4, 2022  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken recently reaffirmed the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—a nation located in Africa’s heart—as a “geostrategic player and critical partner” for the United States. It is a country that features prominently in climate change discussions, not only because of  its vast natural resources (including mineral wealth estimated to be the largest in the world, as well as possession of a forest cover second only to the Amazon Basin), but especially due to its cobalt reserves.

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  • Food Security as a Driver for Sustainable Peace in Kenya

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    From the Wilson Center  //  September 12, 2022  //  By Yiran Ning
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    “The food system is complex; it is not just about food production,” said Florence Odiwuor, a Kenyan Southern Voices for Peacebuilding Scholar, at a recent event on the role of food security systems in sustainable peacebuilding in Africa hosted by the Wilson Center’s Africa Program. As a lecturer at the School of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Studies at Rongo University, Odiwour observed that given the food system’s interconnectedness with issues like education, gender, finance, and labor, “disruptions or failures in the [food] system have caused a lot of conflict in [Kenya].”

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  • Climate Security at USAID: (Re)defining an Integrative Issue

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 30, 2022  //  By Daniel Abrahams & Allison Brown

    BULENZI VILLAGE, LWABENGE SUB-COUNTY, KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 26, 2019 - Justine Nitele, 36, fetches water, a task that was difficult and embarassing to undertake before fistula repair surgery.  Justine is a mother of seven and a fistula survivor. Justine got fistula during a problematic labor of her fifth child. She suffered from the condition for three years. She was informed of treatment for fistula by a midwife. Justine attended Kitovu Hospital in 2014 to have treatment under the USAID Fistula Care Plus program. Justine has recovered completely and is now proudly raising awareness of fistula and its dangers as well as how to prevent it amongst the community. Photo by: Carielle Doe

    Climate security is an essential conceptual framework to understand the global interplay of biophysical and socioeconomic forces that threaten our planet. Indeed, it is so important that new currents of science, politics, and advocacy make refining definitions a necessity.

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