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Americans Want to Challenge China’s Presence in Africa. They Could Start by Showing Up
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Zambia’s Copperbelt province is a microcosm of foreign investment on the continent.
Fly into Lusaka and marvel at the capital’s strikingly modern airport. Drive into town along a road as smooth as any American highway. Look left and notice a large white hospital complex. Glance right only a few minutes later to see the city’s impressive conference center with a “Golden Chopsticks” restaurant next door.
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ECSP Weekly Watch: April 1 – 5
›A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program
Indonesia’s Deforestation Intensifies Extreme Weather Impacts (Associated Press)
Indonesia’s vast biodiverse forests have long sustained livelihoods, food supplies, medicine, and cultural practices. Yet the past seven decades have put them under threat. Since 1950, over 74 million hectares, or nearly 286,000 square miles, of rainforest has been logged, burned, or degraded. The country’s key industries—palm oil, paper, rubber, and mining for oil and critical minerals—are largely to blame. This is occurring in a specific context: Indonesia is not only one of the largest global CO2 emitters globally, but it is also highly vulnerable to climate change—particularly climate change-induced extreme weather events.
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Plowing Under the EU Green Deal? Climate Policy and the European Parliament Elections
›This article originally appeared on the blog of Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program.
The recent farmers’ protests that erupted across several EU countries have put the EU climate debate in the limelight of the European Parliament election campaigns. From Spain to Poland, farmers have been expressing grievances over falling margins; rising costs for energy, fertilizers, and transport; increasing competition from Ukrainian imports; and complex bureaucratic procedures.
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Water @ Wilson | MODSNOW: A New Tool for Water Security in Central and South Asia
›Central and South Asia’s water resources are critical for the region’s water, energy, food and environmental security. Major rivers in the region originate from the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya, Pamir, and Tien Shan Mountain Ranges and flow across multiple countries. Unique geographical characteristics make water management a complex and challenging task that is further complicated by a changing climate and increasing demand affecting diminishing water resources.
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Assessing Local Aspects of Climate Security and Environmental Peace
›Climate change’s potential to aggravate insecurity, particularly through violent conflict, has created a fear that is both widespread and justified. Civil and defense ministries around the world now include climate impacts in their strategic planning, and climate security assessments have become a common policy tool.
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ECSP Weekly Watch | March 18 – 22
›A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program
WMO Says 2023 Saw Record Heats (World Meteorological Organization)
In a new report, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed that records for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperature, ocean heat & acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic Sea ice cover, and glacial retreat were smashed over the past year. The State of the Climate study also confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with temperatures 1.45 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The WMO also noted that the past decade marked the warmest 10-year period on record.
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Thought-leaders and Frontline Workers in Environmental Peacebuilding | An Oral History: Dr. Ken Conca and Dr. Geoff Dabelko
›Environmental Peacebuilding Oral History // New Security Broadcast // March 19, 2024 // By Wilson Center Staff
On today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association launch a series of oral history interviews with academics, practitioners, and frontline workers to trace the history of the field of environmental peacebuilding. From the people who helped shape the field to those who are bringing new approaches and perspectives today, our guests give us a behind-the-scenes look at how the field first emerged and how it has evolved.
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Indigenous Partnerships Can Bring Progress in LAC Energy Projects
›Este ensayo se actualizó con una traducción al español, disponible después de la versión en inglés, a continuación.
Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have committed to transitioning to a net zero economy by 2050. Will they be able to do so without leaving anyone behind? It is unlikely, if business models don’t change.
An annual investment of $700 billion will be needed to curb emissions from the energy sector and its end uses, as well as from agriculture, forestry and other land use. In the clean energy sector alone, investment must increase nearly fivefold from its 2022 level.
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