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  • CLIMATE CHANGE & THE MILITARY: ON WHO’S AUTHORITY?
  • MISSING FROM THE TREATY? NATURAL RESOURCES
  • RETHINKING URBAN  CLIMATE ADAPTATION
  • ZIKA AND ITS  DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES
  • THE PITFALLS OF  MYANMAR’S HYDRO BLITZ
  • CLIMATE CHANGE & THE MILITARY: ON WHO’S AUTHORITY?

  • MISSING FROM THE TREATY? NATURAL RESOURCES

  • RETHINKING URBAN CLIMATE ADAPTATION

  • ZIKA AND ITS DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES

  • THE PITFALLS OF
    MYANMAR’S HYDRO BLITZ

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    May 13, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null
    zika-prevention

    I recently returned to Washington, DC, after 10 days in India. New Delhi was warm, moist, crowded – and buzzing with mosquitoes. Fortunately, at least for now, their bites are little more than an itchy nuisance, which is just as well.

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  • Peace in Colombia Doesn’t Necessarily Mean the Revival of Oil

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    March 10, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null
    Colombia-oil

    It appears increasingly certain that the Colombian government will sign a peace agreement with the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016. The oil and gas industry is widely expected to be among the sectors to most benefit from the end of 50 years of armed conflict. But a new report commissioned by the Latin American Program has identified several challenges to that optimistic view.

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  • Lessons From Africa’s Great Lakes on How to Address Migration

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 1, 2016  //  By Alec Crawford & Angie Dazé
    Lake-Albert

    Migration is an important strategy for coping with environmental variability and change, but it can also place additional stress on ecosystems. Policymakers and practitioners are not always fully aware of these threats, nor fully prepared to manage them through appropriate interventions. Conservation professionals in the field therefore have a key role to play in reducing the harmful impacts that migration can have on the environment, and in mitigating any tensions that may emerge between migrant and host communities.

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    Reading Radar  //  February 25, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    In a study published in Science Advances, Mesfin M. Mekonnen and Arjen Y. Hoekstra estimate that over 4 billion people, approximately two-thirds of the world’s population, face severe water scarcity for at least one month out of the year – far greater than previous estimates of between 1.7 billion and 3.1 billion. The authors examined global water scarcity data from 1996 to 2005 on a monthly basis and at a more localized resolution to show how water scarcity affects different places at different times of year.

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  • David Titley, Center for Climate and Security

    New Department of Defense Directive on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

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    February 25, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
    fuel check

    The original version of this article, by David Titley, appeared on the Center for Climate and Security.

    If you Google “arcane bureaucratic tool” the Department of Defense Directive (DODD) should be high on the results list. That said, these little-known directives can be very influential in how the Pentagon conducts its day-to-day business. Late last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work signed out a DODD that may just be the most meaningful climate-related document the Department of Defense has released.

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  • Cleaning up China’s Ports: Shenzhen Explores Fuel Switching and Onshore Power

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  February 24, 2016  //  By Zhou Yang & Xiaoli Mao
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    China’s “strictest air protection law” yet took effect on January 1, 2016, promising to bring big changes to its smog-filled cities. But some municipal governments have been ahead of the curve, working to clean up the air through experimentation and innovation. Shenzhen, China’s first special economic zone and which recently passed its neighbor Hong Kong to lead China’s most competitive cities, is one of these.

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  • It’s OK to Play With Your Food: What We Learned From a Global Food Security Game

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 23, 2016  //  By Yee San Su & Mary "Kate" Fisher

    The year is 2022. Strong El Niño and La Niña events in successive years have drastically reduced wheat yields in India and Australia and increased the range of certain pests and plant pathogens in the Western Hemisphere. Moreover, a drought across North America has reduced corn and soybean yields significantly. Global commodity prices are up 262 percent over long-term averages. These price increases are compounding other social and economic challenges, contributing to social unrest in several food-importing nations.

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  • The Commander in Chief, Congress, and Climate Security: Who Has the Authority?

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 22, 2016  //  By Mark P. Nevitt
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    Climate change is the world’s greatest environmental threat. It is also increasingly understood as a threat to domestic and international peace and security – recognized by the Department of Defense as a “threat multiplier,” by Secretary of State John Kerry as “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction,” and by President Obama, in an address to graduates of the United States Military Academy, as “a creeping national security crisis.” The Supreme Court’s temporary blocking of the Clean Power Plan highlights the Federal-State divide over how to address climate change, but because of its national security dimension, climate change also raises unique separation of powers issues between the president and Congress with regard to how the military can respond.

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