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  • Competing Imperatives? Migration and the African Continental Free Trade Area

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 28, 2023  //  By Balkissa Diallo
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    African informal migration to Europe raises human insecurity issues for states in both Africa and Europe. This challenge was underscored almost a decade ago by the arrival of about a million migrants and refugees on the shores of Europe.

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  • Tanker Water Markets: A Path to Achieving SDG 6

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 14, 2023  //  By Christian Klassert, Jim Yoon & Steven M. Gorelick
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    Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population experiences some level of water scarcity—and an estimated one billion urban residents face unreliable drinking water supplies. This global water crisis not only has been recognized by the United Nations, but also prioritized for action as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: “Access to Water and Sanitation for All”.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | July 10 – 14

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    Eye On  //  July 14, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Rough Waters: Sri Lanka’s Fishermen Face Climate Challenges and Economic Woes

    Close to 2.4 million Sri Lankans are employed in that nation’s fisheries, and the bounty of its seas and freshwater bodies make up close to half of the country’s animal-based protein. But now the livelihood that has sustained these workers for generations faces growing constraints.

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  • Addressing Climate Security Risks in Central America (Report Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 24, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff

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    Northern Central America is experiencing a confluence of insecurity and migration challenges that are increasingly intertwined with climate change. What are the contours of this emergent convergence—and how can responses be developed and implemented more effectively?

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  • Mary Hellmich, Tobias Bernstein, Transatlantic Climate Bridge

    Transatlantic Subnational Climate Cooperation: Opportunities for Implementation

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    October 14, 2022  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    This article, by Mary Hellmich and Tobias Bernstein, originally appeared on Transatlantic Climate Bridge (TCB).

    Diplomacy between cities, counties, states and regions is critical to ensuring that diplomatic doors between countries are left open throughout changing political cycles at the national level. Such efforts are more important now than ever, especially for the climate crisis. As we head into COP27 with the message “from ambition to implementation,” cities have a critical role to play as the venues where many of the policies discussed at international climate negotiations will play out.

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  • Harnessing the Power of ‘Other’: Cities Where Human Mobility is not a Threat

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 12, 2022  //  By Rachel Locke, Twila Albrecht & Julia Canney

    Juárez,,Chihuahua,,Mexico,03-26-2021,Central,American,Migrants,Cross,The,River

    “This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists. In other words, there is not a single European country now which is afraid of the current wave of refugees.”

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  • Imagine a Future Without Single-Use Plastics

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    China Environment Forum  //  November 18, 2021  //  By Hiroaki Odachi
    Malaysia's Broken Global Recycling System

    If producing plastic waste were a race, Japan would be rushing for the gold medal. Japan and the United States both rank the highest per capita for plastic packaging waste in the world. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration set a goal to reduce Japan’s plastic waste production by 25 percent by 2030 and recent polls show the majority of the Japanese public wants strong actions to reduce plastic waste. Nevertheless, Japan is not doing enough to stem the tide of plastic entering the ocean. If Japan and the rest of the world fail to act more boldly, global oceanic plastic waste could triple by 2040. Current commitments of governments and corporations would only reduce global plastic leakage seven percent below the business-as-usual scenario. Japan’s current waste management system prioritizes recycling and incineration, encouraging a make-take-waste linear model of plastic consumption. Japan needs a circular economy built on a culture of reduction and reuse instead of single-use plastics.

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  • Hitting the Brakes on Plastics in China’s Food Delivery Industry: Q&A with Zheng Xue and Sherry Lu of Plastic Free China

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    China Environment Forum  //  Q&A  //  November 4, 2021  //  By Solange Reppas, Mingwei Zhu, Tongxin Zhu & McKenna Potter
    Shanghai,,China,-,Apr,2,,2020:,Deliveryman,From,Food,Delivery

    In every Chinese city, there is an army of motorcycles and mopeds weaving through the traffic jams, and sometimes even venturing on sidewalks, to deliver millions of food and e-commerce orders each day. Meituan, one of China’s most popular food delivery apps, delivers 30 million orders a day, serving up 100 million plastic containers. According to Greenpeace, e-commerce and express delivery in China generated 9.4 million tons of packaging waste in 2018 and will likely triple to 41.3 million tons by 2025.

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