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  • Top Biden Climate Advisor, Others Preview 2021 Energy and Enviro News

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    February 12, 2021  //  By Joseph A. Davis
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    This article, written by Joseph A. Davis, was originally published by the Society of Environmental Journalists. A recording of the 2021 Journalists’ Guide Event can be found here.

    White House climate advisor Gina McCarthy gave an exclusive preview of the Biden administration’s Jan. 27 rollout of climate initiatives to more than 1,100 journalists, environmental experts and others watching a virtual program organized the same day by Society of Environmental Journalists. 

    The SEJ’s ninth annual Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment look-ahead event, entirely online due to the pandemic, was hosted for the second year by the National Geographic Society and co-sponsored by the Wilson Center.

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  • The Importance of Community Trust to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 30, 2020  //  By Vicha Adri

    podcast photo“Vaccine hesitancy is to be expected in a normal circumstance—it’s very different from being what we call ‘anti-vaccine,’” says Dr. Rahul Gupta, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Health Officer at March of Dimes, in this week’s Friday Podcast. He spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on ongoing efforts to develop and deliver a COVID-19 vaccine, co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, March of Dimes, and the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation.

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  • Wim Zwijnenburg on Using Data to Visualize the Impacts of Conflict on the Environment

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 21, 2020  //  By Wania Yad

    Wim podcast imageThrough open source information, remote sensing, and existing data, we can have a better sense of how conflict impacts the environment and how it then impacts people depending on the environment, said Wim Zwijnenburg, a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organization, PAX, in this week’s Friday Podcast. Wim sat down for an interview with ECSP’s Amanda King at the first International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, hosted at the University of California, Irvine, in October 2019.

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  • CODE BLUE: Addressing NCDs in Maternal Health Starts with Increasing Access and Reducing Disparity

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 11, 2019  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan

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    We’ve got a crisis impacting our mothers and a crisis impacting our babies, said Dr. Lisa Waddell, Senior Vice President of Maternal Child Health and NICU Innovation and Impact Deputy Medical Director at the March of Dimes, at a recent Wilson Center event launching the Maternal Health Initiative’s CODE BLUE series, developed in partnership with EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. She was referring to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which impact maternal health in the United States and globally. NCDs kill 18 million women of reproductive age each year, accounting for two in every three deaths among women.

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  • To Address Security in Africa, Focus on the Citizen: Ambassador Phillip Carter III on the Connections between Development and Security

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    Africa in Transition  //  Friday Podcasts  //  December 6, 2019  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan

    Ambassador Carter 235x176To address the security challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa we need to shift the focus from a concept of state security to one of citizen security, says Ambassador Phillip Carter III (ret.), former Ambassador to the Ivory Coast and the Republic of Guinea, in this week’s Friday Podcast. “Our current strategy of a military response to terrorist organizations or criminal networks is inadequate at best, and probably unsustainable at worst,” says Carter. “To me, the greatest security threat in Africa is poor or bad governance.”

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  • CODE BLUE: The Importance of Integrating Care for Maternal Health and Non-Communicable Disease

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    CODE BLUE  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 5, 2019  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan

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    “Non-communicable diseases have been the leading cause of death for women for at least the past 30 years but are often underreported and undertreated,” said Priya Kanayson, Policy and Advocacy Manager at NCD Alliance at a recent Wilson Center event on the impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on maternal health. The event marked the official launch of the Maternal Health Initiative’s CODE BLUE series, developed in partnership with EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Globally, in 2018, 73 percent of deaths among women were due to NCDs, amounting to 18 million women of reproductive age dying per year due to NCDs. The compounding effects of NCDs complicate women’s experiences in many unseen ways, and the rise and gravity of NCDs pose a growing and often overlooked challenge to maternal health worldwide.

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  • Gordon Mumbo on Water and Livelihoods in the Mara River Basin

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Security for a Resilient World  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  November 15, 2019  //  By Benjamin Dills

    Gordon Mumbo imageThis article is part of ECSP’s Water Security for a Resilient World series, a partnership with USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership and Winrock International to share stories about global water security.

    “If you live in the developed world or in some urban centers, then the supply of water is guaranteed,” said Gordon Mumbo, team leader for Sustainable Water for the Mara River Basin, a project of Winrock International and USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. When you wake up, you expect water to flow from your tap. “If you don’t find it flowing, you get upset and will probably call the utility company.” But people living in the Mara River Basin don’t have that luxury. “They have to walk to the river to get water and bring it home,” said Mumbo.

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  • Upcycling ‘Beach Snow’: Clearing Taiwan’s Oyster Farming Marine Debris

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  October 31, 2019  //  By Grayson Shor
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    “If you go to some Taiwan beaches, you can see snow,” said Chieh-Shen (Jason) Hu, Ocean Initiative Coordinator for Taiwan’s Society of Wilderness, a 6,000-member organization similar to Sierra Club. Hu was referring to pervasive Styrofoam marine debris from western Taiwan’s oldest industry, oyster aquaculture.

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