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Can’t make it to the Wilson Center? Tune in to our podcast to hear expert speakers on the links between global environmental change, health, development, and security.

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  • Ethan Zindler on Clean Energy in Emerging Markets: “The Private Sector Sees the Opportunity”

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 19, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    zindler-small“The good news is clean energy has gotten much cheaper,” says Ethan Zindler, head of the Americas for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, on this week’s podcast. “The amount of stuff getting built for the same number of dollars has been going up. You’re getting more ‘bang for your buck’ when it comes to actual deployment.”

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  • Mike Eckhart: “We Are 40 Years Into a 100-Year Energy Transition”

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 12, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    eckhart-small“In my view, we are 40 years into a 100-year transition to a clean energy economy,” says Mike Eckhart, global head of environmental finance and sustainability at Citigroup, in this week’s podcast. “We’re in the mainstream of building an industry.”

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  • Jagdish Upadhyay: Don’t Wait for the Demographic Dividend, Seize It

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 5, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    jagdish-small“The demographic dividend is about inclusive growth, not just economic growth,” says Jagdish Upadhyay, chief of commodity security at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast. “If it’s not inclusive, achieving the demographic dividend will be difficult.”

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  • Kate Gilmore on Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the “Toughest of Times, in the Hardest of Places”

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 29, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    gilmore-small“Right now, 1.5 billion people are living in humanitarian crisis – living in conflict-afflicted regions,” says Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast.

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  • Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda on Elevating Young Female Leaders By Giving Them Space

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 22, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Gumbonzvanda-small“The demographic data is telling us that the future is very young and the future is very female,” says Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a lawyer and general secretary of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA), in this week’s podcast. “And therefore, we actually have an imperative to respond.”

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  • John Furlow on Better Coordination for Better Climate Adaptation

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    Friday Podcasts  //  August 28, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara

    Furlow-small“We [need to] stop treating ‘adaptation’ like a sector,” says John Furlow, climate change specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in this week’s podcast, “but start treating it as a stress or a risk that undermines the development sectors, the environmental sectors, the social sectors that we care about.”

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  • Sally Edwards on Health and Climate Change in the Caribbean: “It’s a Very Complex Web”

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    Friday Podcasts  //  August 14, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara

    edwards-small“The relationship between human health…and environmental changes is extremely complex,” says Sally Edwards, advisor for sustainable development and environmental health of the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization office for the eastern Caribbean countries, in this week’s podcast.

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  • Providing for the Periphery: Anthony Speca on Development for Canada’s Resource-Rich Nunavut

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    Friday Podcasts  //  August 7, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara

    speca-smallRich in natural resources, poor in nearly every human development indicator. The description applies to many of the most-conflict ridden states in the world, but also to a region often forgotten in global development circles: the Arctic North.

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