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  • New U.S. Global Fragility Strategy Recognizes Environmental Issues as Key to Stability

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    Reading Radar  //  January 14, 2021  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi
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    A new Global Fragility Strategy, released late last year by the U.S. Department of State, signals a growing awareness of the role that environmental issues play in fragility, conflict, and peace. According to the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance, in the last five years alone, “the U.S. government has spent $30 billion in 15 of the most fragile countries in the world.” These “large-scale U.S. stabilization efforts after 9/11 have cost billions of dollars but failed to produce intended results,” writes Devex’s Teresa Welsh. As a result, Congress passed into law in 2019 the Global Fragility Act, legislation that directed the Department of State to lead the development of a new 10-year Global Fragility Strategy that sets out a new U.S approach to conflict prevention and stabilization in fragile contexts.

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  • Why Secondary Cities Deserve More Attention

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 26, 2020  //  By Gad Perry, Melinda Laituri & Laura Cline
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    Mention London, Rome, or New York, and people immediately conjure up Big Ben, the Colosseum, the Statue of Liberty. Beijing, Cairo, Mumbai? Check. They’ve heard of them. Megacities, the ones with lots of history, lots of people, and an oversized impact on the economy and culture, tend to be well-known. 

    Fewer people may know much about Addis Ababa, Dhaka, Lagos, or São Paulo — yet many would recognize the names. But who knows or has been to Darkhan, Mongolia or Santa Fe, Argentina or Boké-Kamsar in Guinea?

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  • Security Links: An Emerging Congressional Common Ground on Climate Change?

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    July 26, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi
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    Earlier this month 46 House Republicans voted with Democrats to protect an amendment in the current National Defense Authorization Act that acknowledges that “climate change is a direct threat to the national security of the United States” and requires the secretary of defense to provide “a report on the vulnerability to military installations and combatant command requirements resulting from climate change over the next 20 years.”

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  • Citizen Science Is Making it Harder for China’s Biggest Polluters to Hide

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 21, 2017  //  By Elizabeth Tyson
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    In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency charged its federal advisory committee with exploring how citizen science and crowdsourcing should be integrated into the agency’s mission. The resulting report eloquently describes how if the environment is to be protected then it’s the duty of all – the government, institutions, and citizens – to work together to achieve this.

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  • Food Violence Shows Need for Both Development and Climate Resilience

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 31, 2017  //  By Benjamin T. Jones, Eleonora Mattiaci & Bear F. Braumoeller
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    In March, the Trump Administration released a new budget proposal that would cut funding to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development by 28 percent. The proposal also reduces funding to the United Nations for ongoing climate change efforts. At the same time, the White House is publicly considered withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, with a final decision anticipated any day. Critics both outside the administration and within have pointed to the drawbacks of these moves, but the sum of the policy changes could have an even greater impact than the individual parts.

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  • Mattis Latest in Succession of Senior Military Leaders to Warn About Climate Change

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    March 17, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    This week, newly minted Secretary of Defense James Mattis joined a long list of senior U.S. military leaders who have warned about the national security threats of climate change.

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  • A Chronic Crisis, Now Acute: WWF’s Recommendations for the First U.S. Global Water Strategy

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 16, 2017  //  By David Reed, Karin Krchnak & Chris McGahey
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    The intelligence community’s landmark Global Water Security assessment in 2012, warned of major water-driven challenges to U.S. national security. The combined assessment of several intelligence agencies foresaw many challenges to U.S. policy objectives and national security arising from protracted drought, declining water quality, and more natural disasters in countries important to U.S. interests. The intelligence community further warned of rising social instability, cross-border tensions, and a steady drain of resources away from other development objectives. These warnings have proven prescient.

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  • Global Water and National Security: Why the Time Is Now

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 6, 2017  //  By Sherri Goodman, Ruth Greenspan Bell & Nausheen Iqbal
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    During the 2016 campaign President Trump stated that clean water would be a top priority of his administration, telling ScienceDebate.org “it may be the most important issue we face as a nation for the next generation.” Now is the time to make good on that commitment.

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