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  • Alix Bacon on Building a Global Community of Midwives

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  July 29, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples
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    The fourth global Women Deliver conference in May brought nearly 6,000 experts and advocates to Copenhagen to address the health and rights of women and girls, including a small group of young midwives who attended a symposium beforehand. “I went in a little bit skeptical,” says Alix Bacon, president of the Midwives Association of British Columbia and one of 32 women under 35 who received a scholarship to attend, in this week’s podcast. “And I came home a changed woman and a believer.”

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  • The Case for a Caribbean Carbon Market

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 24, 2016  //  By Gary Clyne
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    In an effort to scale-up climate change mitigation, the largest private sector engagement in the history of the United Nations was drafted to fund clean technology projects in developing countries. Carbon credits were to offset pollution in developed nations and pay for clean energy projects in developing countries. But many developed countries, including the United States, spurned the agreement, preferring to manage greenhouse gas emissions internally and build or retrofit infrastructure in ways that directly benefited their economies. The ambitions of the Kyoto Protocol, which went into effect in 2005, were subsequently stranded and then scrapped.

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  • From Climate Challenge to Climate Hope: Embracing New Opportunities This Earth Day

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    April 22, 2016  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    This Earth Day, the United States, China, and Canada are among more than 170 countries expected to take part in the largest one-day signing of an international agreement in history. The ratification of the climate agreement hammered out at the Paris Conference of Parties (COP-21) last December could be the most significant elevation of environmental issues on the global stage yet.

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  • Trudeau’s White House Visit Sets Stage for U.S.-Canada Climate Cooperation

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    March 10, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null
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    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the White House this week and climate change is expected to be one of the highest profile topics of conversation.

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  • The Environment and Energy Stories to Watch in 2016

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    From the Wilson Center  //  On the Beat  //  March 8, 2016  //  By Meaghan Parker

    The climate agreement reached in Paris last December, seen by many as a critical step toward lowering greenhouse gas emissions, was big news – perhaps too big. Pointing to the thousands of articles about COP-21, National Geographic Senior Editor Marla Cone asked at a recent Wilson Center panel, “Is this a wise use of resources, when newsrooms are so stretched thin, to have everybody pretty much chasing the same stories?”

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  • Making Nunavut a Full Partner in Canadian Confederation

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 16, 2016  //  By Anthony Speca
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    The original version of this article appeared as a Polar Initiative policy brief.

    Canada is well known as a world leader in measures of human wellbeing. Since the launch of the UN Human Development Index in 1990, Canada has ranked among the top 10 countries every single year except one. But though Canadians can take a just pride in their country’s achievement on the global stage, it nevertheless masks grave concerns at home.

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  • Why Canada Is an Energy Titan and How Its Hydropower Can Help the U.S.

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    Choke Point  //  From the Wilson Center  //  November 20, 2015  //  By Andrew Finn
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    The United States: The world’s lone remaining superpower, home of the world’s largest economy and military, the world’s largest producer and consumer of natural gas, and soon the leading producer and consumer of oil.

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  • Tracking the Energy Titans: Hidden Trends in the United States, China, and Canada [Infographic]

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    Choke Point  //  From the Wilson Center  //  September 14, 2015  //  By David Rejeski
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    Back in high school physics we learned the first law of thermodynamics: Energy within a closed system must remain constant. In other words, the total amount of energy cannot increase or decrease without some sort of outside interference.

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