-
Kenneth Weiss, Worldwatch Institute
Environmental Researchers and the Touchy Topics of Family Planning and Population
›January 20, 2016 // By Wilson Center Staff
As a young and promising marine biologist, Camilo Mora led a team of 55 scientists assessing the rapid decline of fish on the world’s coral reefs. It was a global enterprise with broad implications. Hundreds of millions of people rely on reef fish for their primary source of animal protein. Healthy reefs protect coastal communities from devastating storms and provide a multitude of livelihoods, including jobs in the fast-growing tourism industry.
-
An Empty Table? Food-Climate-Conflict Connections in Paris
›Security, terrorism, conflict, and peace: you won’t find any of these words in the landmark agreement released on December 12 at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP-21). It’s never been front-and-center on the agenda at previous Conference of Parties, from Copenhagen to Cancun. But in Paris, a city reeling from terrorist attacks, the specter of climate-related conflict haunted delegates and the potential of a climate-resilient peace inspired grassroots protests.
-
Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs
4 Myths About Climate Change in South Asia
›December 9, 2015 // By Wilson Center StaffClimate change is a very real threat. It will have major implications for every country and region in the world, but South Asia is particularly vulnerable. To appropriately address the challenges there, the world will have to confront four misconceptions about climate change in South Asia. With world leaders convening in Paris to hash out a new agreement on climate change, now is the right time to do it.
-
Can the “World’s Largest Urban Area” Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta
›SHENZHEN, China – In 1980, the year Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as China’s first special economic zone, opening its mercantile sectors to market capitalism and free trade principles, an attractive, tree-shaded commercial district known as Dongmen was home to 30,000 residents near the center of a metropolitan region of 300,000.
Thirty-five years later, Dongmen is a crowded commercial neighborhood of 300,000 residents at the edge of a metropolitan region of 18 million, China’s fourth largest.
-
Lisa Palmer, Yale Climate Connections
Learning From India’s “Climate-Smart” Farming Villages
›December 2, 2015 // By Wilson Center StaffJoginder Singh, a 68-year-old farmer in the village of Noopur Bet in Punjab, is among the thousands of farmers in India trying to reconcile the risks posed by a changing climate with their need to improve crop yields to support their families.
-
Ruth Greenspan Bell and Barry M. Blechman, Foreign Affairs
Turning Down the Heat: Progress in the Fight Against Climate Change
›November 24, 2015 // By Wilson Center StaffLast week, at a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, the United States, Japan, and several other nations reached an agreement that will restrict financing for overseas coal projects. The deal will limit investment in the dirtiest, coal-fired power plants but will allow some continued investment in more efficient coal technology. Japan is one of the major sources of finance for the coal industry, so the agreement is an important moment in the effort to reduce global emissions.
-
In Shenzhen, Tracking the Early Steps of China’s Carbon Pivot
›SHENZHEN, China – To some extent, the contemporary industrial age is a global narrative of substance abuse and recovery.
-
A River Runs Again: Reporting on India’s Natural Crisis
›The world’s second most populous country – projected to be first by 2022 – is developing faster than ever before, roiling the social, political, and environmental landscape. [Video Below]
Showing posts from category consumption.
