The Year Ahead in Environment and Energy
With the Obama Administration moving forward on emissions reductions, the deadline for drafting the Sustainable Development Agenda, and a highly anticipated global climate summit in Paris, 2015...
View ArticleHigh Stakes: How This Year’s Climate Negotiations Will Impact National Security
Expectations for the upcoming UN climate change summit in Paris are higher than they’ve been in years. Experts expect it will be the best chance to achieve a binding, universal agreement to limit...
View ArticleResilience for Peace: A New Agenda
As “resilience” builds as a theme for the development community, a few key concepts are rising to the top of the conversation.Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticleWEBCAST: The Advancing Climate-Resilient Development Symposium
Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) is a four-year project in support of USAID’s Global Climate Change Office. CCRD activities have taken place throughout Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and...
View ArticleThe UN Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals or One?
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), being developed by the world community under the auspices of the UN, provide benchmarks for eradicating poverty, protecting the environment, and...
View ArticleGlobal Trends, Local Stories: New Films on India and Ethiopia
On March 24, the DC Environmental Film Festival comes to the Wilson Center for the Washington, DC, premieres of two new short documentaries from ECSP, “Broken Landscape” and “Paving the Way.” Filmmaker...
View ArticleIslands as Champions of Resilience
In contrast to the common narrative of small-island states being among the most vulnerable to climate change, their growing experience in climate-compatible development, disaster prevention, and...
View ArticlePromoting Years of Sustainability: Responding to Megatrends
2015 is a major test for the international system. The Sustainable Development Goals are expected to be adopted in New York in September and expectations for the UN Climate Summit in Paris are higher...
View ArticleThe Sahel, Beyond the Headlines: Population, Environment, and Security Dynamics
Violent extremism in the Sahel region has dominated the news since Boko Haram kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls one year ago. But the complex dynamics that are compounding the region’s security...
View ArticleGlobal Trends in the Next Decade: Implications for U.S. National Security,...
Global trends, including climate change, population dynamics, water and energy scarcities, and a shifting economic landscape, are shaping the future of U.S. national security, diplomacy, and...
View ArticleA New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks (Report...
Want to attend but can’t? Tune into the live or archived webcast at WilsonCenter.org (not every event is webcast live; archived webcasts go up approximately one day after the meeting date).Join the...
View ArticleThe Hillary Doctrine: Sex & American Foreign Policy (Book Launch)
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View ArticleChanging the World: How USAID’s 50 Years of Family Planning has Transformed...
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. government’s first investments in overseas international family planning programs. In his January 4, 1965 State of the Union address, President Lyndon B....
View ArticleThe Right IDEA: Engaging Decisionmakers on Family Planning in the Post-2015...
To act, decisionmakers need ideas--and the will to implement them. Effective policy engagement requires providing decisionmakers with accurate data, compelling stories and concise synthesis of...
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