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8 Takeaways From the Paris Climate Change Conference
›The nations of the world may have finally solved the thorniest problem in international relations and now we need to figure out practical solutions, said a panel of experts at the Wilson Center on December 16.
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John Wihbey, Yale Climate Connections
Nuancing “Climate Refugee” Language and Images
›December 18, 2015 // By Wilson Center Staff
Migrants and Syrian refugees have become the new “stranded polar bear” of climate change imagery. But most such impacts will seldom be so dramatic or camera-ready.
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Tracking National Security in the Paris Outcome
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Security was inseparable from the climate talks in Paris, from the safety of conference participants to how climate change impacts the stability of nations.
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Islands in Paris: New Climate Deal Gives Some Recognition to Humanity’s Truth Bearers
›December 16, 2015 // By Roger-Mark De Souza
The new climate deal coming out of Paris commits governments to hold the rise in average global temperatures to “well below” two degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels. An important dimension of this agreement calls for subsequent work on limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees. This is an important win for islands and other low-lying countries, and for humanity.
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Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs
4 Myths About Climate Change in South Asia
›December 9, 2015 // By Wilson Center Staff
Climate change is a very real threat. It will have major implications for every country and region in the world, but South Asia is particularly vulnerable. To appropriately address the challenges there, the world will have to confront four misconceptions about climate change in South Asia. With world leaders convening in Paris to hash out a new agreement on climate change, now is the right time to do it.
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Can the “World’s Largest Urban Area” Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta
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SHENZHEN, China – In 1980, the year Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as China’s first special economic zone, opening its mercantile sectors to market capitalism and free trade principles, an attractive, tree-shaded commercial district known as Dongmen was home to 30,000 residents near the center of a metropolitan region of 300,000.
Thirty-five years later, Dongmen is a crowded commercial neighborhood of 300,000 residents at the edge of a metropolitan region of 18 million, China’s fourth largest.
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The U.S. Asia-Pacific Rebalance, National Security, and Climate Change (Report Launch)
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In the hierarchy of global and national security challenges, climate change comes out near the top, said a panel of distinguished defense, diplomacy, and intelligence leaders at the Wilson Center on November 17. [Video Below]
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In Morocco, a Microcosm of What Leads Many to Leave Their Home Countries
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Global attention is understandably focused on Syrian refugees, but the migration crisis in Europe is part of a bigger trend that climate and social scientists have been warning about for years.
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