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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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  • After Paris, What’s the Status of “Environmental Refugees?”

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 7, 2016  //  By James F. Hollifield & Idean Salehyan
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    “Wilson Perspectives: The Paris Climate Agreement” is a series of short essays exploring the key issues that emerged during the 21st Conference of Parties that originally appeared on WilsonCenter.org.

    One of the hidden costs of climate change is the displacement of millions of people in some of the poorest regions of the globe. The existing international refugee regime is ill-suited to cope with those seeking refuge from environmental disasters. Countries must get serious about developing coordinated plans to address the issue, lest they be caught by surprise when another humanitarian crisis hits.

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  • Modi’s Grand Plan to Divert Himalayan Rivers Faces Obstacles

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 22, 2015  //  By Ashok Swain
    India-Reflection

    One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first priorities after winning an overwhelming victory last year on a platform of development and growth is to fast-track a decades-old plan to link India’s rivers.

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  • John Wihbey, Yale Climate Connections

    Nuancing “Climate Refugee” Language and Images

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    December 18, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by John Wihbey, appeared on Yale Climate Connections.

    Migrants and Syrian refugees have become the new “stranded polar bear” of climate change imagery. But most such impacts will seldom be so dramatic or camera-ready.

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  • The U.S. Asia-Pacific Rebalance, National Security, and Climate Change (Report Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  December 8, 2015  //  By Schuyler Null & Deepshri Mathur
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    In the hierarchy of global and national security challenges, climate change comes out near the top, said a panel of distinguished defense, diplomacy, and intelligence leaders at the Wilson Center on November 17. [Video Below]

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  • Priyali Sur, Foreign Policy

    South Asian Environmental Migrants Pushed to Back of Line in Refugee Flood

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    November 26, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
    refugee camp Germany

    The original version of this article, by Priyali Sur, appeared on Foreign Policy.

    The dark eyes and hair of the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Afghans almost blend with the other migrants’. The brown skin tones are also not giveaways, but ask them where they come from, and you notice the hesitation – trying hard to blend into the crowd of Syrian migrants at Europe’s border crossings, afraid of being spotted and sent back.

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  • Falling Costs, Rising Opportunities: Scaling Up Renewable Energy in the Developing World [Part Two]

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 12, 2015  //  By Graham Norwood
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    “Clean energy has gone from being the ‘right thing to do’ in combating climate change, to being the most cost-effective option for many energy-insecure countries,” said Carrie Thompson, deputy director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Regional Development Mission for Asia, during a day-long conference on renewable energy at the Wilson Center on October 27 (read part one of our coverage here).

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  • The Renewable Energy Era Has Already Started

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 5, 2015  //  By Mohamed T. El-Ashry
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    The world has entered a new energy era. Last year, for the first time in four decades, the global economy grew without an increase in CO2 emissions, according to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century.

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