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15 Years of Environmental Peacemaking: Overcoming Challenges and Identifying Opportunities for Cooperation
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As the 1990s drew to a close, there was a sense that much of the momentum gained at the first Earth Summit on sustainable development, a positive, affirming environmental narrative, was waning.
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Backdraft #4: Edward Carr on Climate Response, Motivations, and the Value of Ethnographic Research
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Unintended consequences from climate interventions are often the result of not understanding decision-making at a granular enough level, says Edward Carr in this week’s “Backdraft” episode. -
Pakistan’s Unheralded Fight Against Climate Change
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In recent months, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has been in the headlines – and for all the wrong reasons.
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Can We Save the World’s Remaining Forests? A Look at ‘Why REDD Will Fail’
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As climate change threatens the stability of ecosystems around the world, the preservation of forests is seen as a “win-win” solution to curbing planet-warming emissions while producing value for developing country economies.
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As More Aid Flows to Fragile States, a Call for a Better Approach
›March 7, 2017 // By Sreya Panuganti
Global poverty has been reduced dramatically over the past two decades. Less than 11 percent of the world’s population were living in extreme poverty in 2013 compared to 35 percent in 1990. But improvements have largely come in stable countries. Many of the remaining pockets of extreme poverty are in “fragile states,” countries that are vulnerable to internal and external shocks and can easily tip into crisis when faced with an environmental, economic, social, or political change.
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A Journalists’ Guide to Energy and the Environment in 2017
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“Turbulent and possibly revolutionary times are ahead for U.S. energy and environmental policy,” said Bobby Magill, a senior science writer at Climate Central, at the Wilson Center on February 3. “If there’s one message the Trump Administration is sending about environmental and climate regulations, it’s this: The future will not look like the past.”
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Ocean Fish Stocks on “Verge of Collapse,” Says IRIN Report
›The world’s ocean fish stocks are “on the verge of collapse,” according to a special report from IRIN. Already small fishers in poor countries are reeling, turning to ever-more destructive techniques and suffering from poor health and dwindling livelihoods.
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Are We Headed Toward “Recurring Storms” of Global Food Insecurity?
›February 27, 2017 // By Erica Martin
It’s often assumed that in the modern era, food security is an achievable goal. But between 2007 and 2008, a confluence of conditions shook the international food system to its core, fueling unrest and riots in more than 40 nations around the world. What’s more, this “perfect storm” may have been only a harbinger of challenges to come, according to a new report by Emmy Simmons of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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