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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | October 21 – 25

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    Eye On  //  October 25, 2024  //  By Neeraja Kulkarni

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program 

    COP16 Begins in Colombia (Al Jazeera) 

    Almost 200 countries are gathering in Colombia for a two-week span (October 21 to November 1) for the UN Convention on Biodiversity to further global conservation goals. At COP15, the meeting culminated with an ambitious global treaty—the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2022)—that required member states to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. The agreement had four goals that set a “30×30“ agenda to protect 30% of global land, earth, and water ecosystems by 2030. 

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | September 3 – 6

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    Eye On  //  September 6, 2024  //  By Neeraja Kulkarni

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Proliferation of Icebreakers in the Arctic (Foreign Policy) 

    As climate change-induced melting of ice sheets clears new pathways, the fast-melting Arctic now has a new strategic race: icebreakers. Russia covers over half of what is defined as “Arctic” territory, and it has the largest number of icebreakers in the region. Russia’s attempt to consolidate and expand has led the US and its NATO allies to redefine their own Arctic security strategy.  

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | July 15 – 19

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    Eye On  //  July 19, 2024  //  By Neeraja Kulkarni

    A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Shedding Light on Imperial Oil’s Dark Waters (Mongabay) 

    Canada has the fourth-largest tar sands (oil deposits) in the world. Separating the bitumen used in industries and construction creates large volumes of toxic wastewater, which is stored in tailings ponds that now cover a staggering 270 square kilometers. Unresolved infrastructure mishaps at one such site in Alberta operated by Imperial Oil means that contaminants have polluted nearby waters so significantly that it has affected public health and the livelihoods of indigenous communities in downstream areas.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | July 8 – 12

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    Eye On  //  July 12, 2024  //  By Neeraja Kulkarni

    A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Climate Security and Canada’s Promises to NATO  (Global News) 

    As a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Canada has been influential in the integration of climate change policy with the alliance’s mission. It supported the development of NATO’s Climate Change and Security Action Plan aligning with the alliance’s core tasks of deterrence and defense, crisis prevention and management, and cooperative security. Following the Canadian proposal 2021, Global Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defense jointly lead NATO’s Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE) to research and identify best practices to address climate change and security-related challenges.  

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  • The Resurgence of Indigenous Midwifery in Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 16, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid

    podcast photos 4x3 (1)Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, the risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than for white women, while in Australia the risk is four and a half times higher. This week’s Friday Podcast highlights remarks from a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives about Indigenous midwifery.

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  • Knowledge Keepers: Why We Need Indigenous Midwives

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  October 7, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. In celebration, the Maternal Health Initiative is publishing a series of articles to recognize the importance of these two professions towards improving maternal and women’s health outcomes and to illuminate the impact made by both nurses and midwives the world over.

    “We need more Indigenous midwives,” said Claire Dion Fletcher, an Indigenous Potawatomi-Lenape Registered Midwife and co-chair of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM), at a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives about Indigenous midwifery. Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than white women, while in Australia the risk is four and a half times higher.

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  • Why Feminism Is Good for Your Health

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    Covid-19  //  Guest Contributor  //  August 26, 2020  //  By Alison Brysk & Miguel Fuentes Carreño
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    As a world still dominated by patriarchy struggles with a deadly pandemic, the countries that have successfully navigated the global COVID-19 pandemic are distinguished by the gender of their leadership.  Across the world, countries headed by women and representing diverse cultures—from Germany, Norway, and Finland, to Taiwan, New Zealand, and Namibia—have managed the crisis more effectively, with fewer fatalities and less livelihood loss than others. But what distinguishes these health winners is not just the female shape of their leaders but the feminist shape of their societies. Even more gender-balanced societies headed by men—like Canada—do better in health crises than their less equitable peers like the United States. On the other hand, the most patriarchal countries headed by regressive strongmen do worse at every level of development. Today, we see this in Brazil, which until recently had managed health crises well under less masculinist leadership.

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  • Water and Governance: Changing Water Laws in a Changing Climate

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 2, 2018  //  By Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath
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    The Columbia River basin—which spans four U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and 32 Tribal Nations or First Nations—touches the lives of more than five million people each day. The basin’s 250 hydroelectric dams power everything from Google’s data center to irrigation pumps that spread water onto fields of alfalfa and potatoes. Steelhead trout and salmon rely on the river to spawn. Ships and tugboats transport millions of tons of cargo to and from the Pacific Ocean.

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