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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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  • 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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  • What’s Next? A Report Out From the First Planetary Security Conference

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    February 18, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    In November 2015, experts from a variety of fields gathered at the Peace Palace in The Hague for the Planetary Security Conference, one of the first large-scale conferences on environmental security and what is hoped to be the start of an annual series. The conference report gives a sense of the diverse discussions held in the Netherlands.

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  • Climate Change, Disasters, and Security: Unconventional Approaches to Building Stability

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 8, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
    PACOM Nepal relief

    It is “not sufficient to look at history for lessons on how we should prepare for and prevent future security risks in a climate change world,” said Swathi Veeravalli, research scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Geospatial Research Laboratory, at the Wilson Center on January 14. Climate change and the extreme weather events it brings pose an “unprecedented” threat to human security. [Video Below]

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  • Breaking Out of the Dome: Can Energy Efficiency Help Chinese Cities Conquer Air Pollution?

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    China Environment Forum  //  February 2, 2016  //  By Qinnan Zhou
    Huzhou-Power-Plants

    In December 2015, Beijing issued its first-ever “red alert” for smog, its highest air pollution warning, which closed schools and restricted the number of cars on the road. Less than two weeks later, it issued its second.

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  • Lessons From Uganda on Strengthening Women’s Voices in Environmental Governance

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 19, 2016  //  By Blake Ratner, Clementine Burnley & Paola Adriázola
    Kachanga meeting

    Ask Agnes Namukasa about sustainably managing fisheries in Kachanga, the lakeshore landing site she calls home in Uganda’s Masaka District, and you will soon learn about toilets. From her perspective, community members won’t address conflict between government enforcers and fishers, competition among neighboring villages, or pollution threatening aquatic ecosystems until they can first organize to address their most pressing daily needs. And in Kachanga, where chronic childhood diarrhea and a host of other illnesses stem from poor sanitation, those essentials include public latrines.

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  • Mogelgaard, McGray, Amerasinghe, World Resources Institute

    What Does the Paris Agreement Mean for Climate Resilience and Adaptation?

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    January 14, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
    Dhaka Bangladesh

    The original version of this article, by Kathleen Mogelgaard, Heather McGray, and Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe, appeared on the World Resources Institute.

    Climate change impacts, such as severe drought, sea-level rise, and shifting seasonal patterns, will affect people everywhere. So it’s fitting that the new Paris Agreement places unprecedented importance on actions needed – both nationally and globally – to help people adapt, and solidifies expectations that all countries will do their part to promote greater climate resilience. It also recognizes that even the greatest resilience may not completely prevent harm to life and property, and that the global community must find ways to address “loss and damage” in cases where impacts are beyond the limits of adaptation.

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  • The Climate Community Turns to Pragmatism, Mostly

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 14, 2016  //  By Ruth Greenspan Bell
    COP-21-celebration

    “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.

    The good news out of Paris is that the world is finally getting serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here are a few reasons to cheer and one quibble.

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