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  • As Cities Grow More Crammed and Connected, How Will We Discourage the Spread of Disease?

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 19, 2016  //  By Nate Berg
    la-paz

    The original version of this article appeared on Ensia.

    Near the corner of Broadwick and Lexington in London’s Soho neighborhood, a single spot on the ground has influenced more than 150 years of urban development. It’s the location of a water pump that in 1854 physician John Snow pinpointed as the source of contamination leading to a widespread outbreak of cholera in the neighborhood that killed more than 600 people.

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  • What Next? Climate Mitigation After Paris

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 30, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
    Xiehe-power-plant

    The Paris Climate Agreement sets forth a bold goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, keep global temperature rise below 2.0 degrees Celsius, and employ best efforts toward no more than 1.5 degrees of warming. It also sets forth a new set of rules to achieve these goals. [Video Below]

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  • How to Translate Paris Pledges Into Action? Regulatory Frameworks, Says World Bank’s Grzegorz Peszko

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    Friday Podcasts  //  June 24, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples
    Peszko

    Nearly six months after the Paris climate agreement, the international community’s attention has shifted from celebration to implementation. Governments have begun outlining climate pledges in the form of intended nationally determined contributions, or INDCs – which are fast becoming nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, as they begin influencing policy.

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  • El Niño Affects Food for 80 Million, “Paradigm Shift” Needed in Disaster Risk Assessment

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    Reading Radar  //  June 9, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null

    EU-report2A report by the European Union on global food security finds 240 million people are in food stress thanks to conflict, refugee situations, flooding, drought, and El Niño. Part of a 2012 commitment by the EU to better target the root causes of food insecurity, the report analyzes the hunger situation in 70 countries and provides deeper analysis for 20.

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  • Water Is the Climate Challenge, Says World Bank

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    May 6, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null

    How will climate change affect you? Probably through water.

    That’s the major message of a new World Bank report that finds the ways governments treat water can have a profound effect on the economy.

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  • After Mexico City and Before Copenhagen: Keeping Our Promise to Mothers and Newborns

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 3, 2016  //  By Haodan "Heather" Chen
    mother and child

    Last October, on the heels of the UN General Assembly agreeing to the Sustainable Development Goals, the global health community met in Mexico City to discuss strategy for achieving the “grand convergence”: finally bridging the gap between maternal and newborn health in rich and poor countries. [Video Below]

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  • Breaking the Fragility Trap: What Role for the World Bank?

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 18, 2016  //  By Benjamin Pohl & Lukas Rüttinger
    Syria to Turkey crossing

    Last month, the World Bank’s Fragility Forum in Washington, DC, brought together some 600 participants to discuss how to advance sustainable development in the context of increasing conflicts and violence. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim opened the forum by emphasizing that we are at a critical moment.

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  • To Fight Zika, Coordinating Agencies Must Prioritize Effective Knowledge Management

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  March 31, 2016  //  By Anne Kott & Rupali J. Limaye
    zika alert

    Zika is a global health challenge. Since its outbreak in Brazil last May, the virus has spread to more than 30 countries and territories and ignited global discourse about family planning, vaccine development, reproductive rights, contraceptive security, and even gender norms.

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