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The SDGs Are All About Integration – Good Thing PHE Programs Have Been Doing...
Last week, the United Nations concluded one of the last negotiations on the road to adopting the Sustainable Development Goals in September. We’ve entered the home stretch of a process that has taken...
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Engaging Decision-makers on Family Planning: Some Right IDEAs
Just a few years ago, progress on global family planning and reproductive health policy seemed to be stuck in a rut. “For 20 years, development money for health had been directed to fight HIV and...
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Without Water, No Sustainable Development: World Water Week 2015
The World Economic Forum recently named water crisis the world’s number one risk for the next 10 years for its potential impact on people and industry. Indeed, as the global community grapples with...
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Crossing Borders and Defying Policing, Abuses of Thailand’s Fishing Industry...
Somewhere off the coast of Thailand, “ghost ships” bump and crash along the choppy waves scrapping the sea floor with nets that spare nothing. Pulling up these illegal hauls in shifts that sometimes...
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Violence Over Land in Darfur Demands We Look Again at Links Between Natural...
Given that there have been three major peace processes in Sudan’s troubled western province of Darfur, the current escalation of violence indicates that perhaps something about existing approaches is...
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From Gaza to the Euphrates, Alarm Bells for Mideast Water Resources
The board of the United Nations’ lead organization on trade and development, called UNCTAD, released an assessment of Gaza’s development challenges during their annual meeting in Geneva this month and...
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What Will It Take to Break the Climate Gridlock? Learning From Iran and Cuba
The original version of this article, by Ruth Greenspan Bell, appeared on Foreign Affairs. United States President Barack Obama invested four years and his top diplomats in containing Iran’s nuclear...
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A Healthy Environment Is a Human Right
The original version of this article, by Ken Conca, appeared on The Guardian. For all its flaws, the United Nations remains the only plausible forum for engaging broad global challenges like...
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A Little Bit of Sugar Helps the Pill Go Down: Resilience, Peace, and Family...
Adapted from a commentary on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword,” which appeared in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. A recent article by Malcolm Potts, Aafreen Mahmood, and...
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Managing Expectations for the Paris Climate Conference and Beyond
The focus of the global community on the outcomes of the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December is unprecedented. The world awaits,...
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The Renewable Energy Era Has Already Started
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...
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Long in the Background, Population Becoming a Bigger Issue at Climate Change...
As most of the world’s governments are puzzling out what they can offer to combat global climate change, a sensitive but critical aspect of the problem is coming into clearer focus: population. The...
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Zero-Emission Energy for 1.3 Billion People? Scaling Up Renewable Energy in...
The renewable energy sector has reached a critical inflection point where costs are competitive with fossil fuels and investment is ramping up in a big way, said more than a dozen experts at a...
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Falling Costs, Rising Opportunities: Scaling Up Renewable Energy in the...
“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...
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Turning Down the Heat: Progress in the Fight Against Climate Change
The original version of this article, by Ruth Greenspan Bell and Barry M. Blechman, appeared on Foreign Affairs. Last week, at a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in...
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South Asian Environmental Migrants Pushed to Back of Line in Refugee Flood
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...
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The Long Tail of Paris and What to Watch for Next
The most important and anticipated climate change conference in years is finally underway. In some ways, as Bill McKibben and Andrew Revkin have pointed out, its success is relatively assured thanks...
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The nations of the world may have finally solved the thorniest problem in international relations and now we need to figure out practical solutions, said a panel of experts at the Wilson Center...
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In Fight to Stop the Spread of Female Genital Mutilation, Midwives Are Crucial
Aissata M.B. Camara grew up in an educated, upper income household in Guinea, West Africa. One morning, she woke up to singing outside her window and knew they were coming. Many in her community...
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Missing the Big Picture in Challenging Africa’s “Land Grab” Narrative
Who walks away from fertile agricultural land available to lease for as little as $1 per year per hectare? Recent reports indicate international investors are doing just that across sub-Saharan...
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