In one of my earliest conversation with him i said who among your or my colleagues should we go about trying to get involved . And he gave us three names, and two of those three names are joni ernst and ron johnson. We are grateful, but i also want you, your honor the legacy of dr. Coburn on your participation today. Joni, senator ernst, but start with you. Open comments. Senator johnson will then go to you and opened up for questions if this time are many. Thanks for joining us. [inaudible] a great champion and a wonderful college to work on these issues. Just starting of course you mentioned senator coburn because you really did pave the way when it came to waste cutting efforts within our federal government. He was great support of the commissioner and so we do want to honor him for that. Hes been an inspiration for so many of us. But i know several of you will remember that when i first ran for office i did that make a squeal sound. This is not easy. [inaudible] in the swamp. For e
Excellent panel and were start off with heather. Thank you so much. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about the intersection of climate stress and security. In many ways, the arctic is telling us, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most stress as the arctic is warming two to three times faster than anyplace on the planet. In many ways, were now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it because Many Americans do not know the United States as an arctic nation to bring it home, this is homeland security. We now have a new coast that requires our protection. That is what in many ways the nexus between the rapid diminishment of the arctic polar ice cap is now creating new borders, new coasts to protect. Which is why we need enhanced coast guard presence. Certainly thats through the enhanced ice breaker component, what we call a polar secur
Climate on oceans, Marine Biodiversity and human populations living in vulnerable areas. I appreciate it andthanks to our first panel. Ive enjoyed the conversation. I think were going to pick up on the end of that conversation around this idea of the Dynamic World and what that means now in the policy and security space so im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Heatherconley , John Mimikakis was Vice President for oceans Environmental Defense fund, there was director of fisheries and amy lehr who is the director of the Human Rights Initiative so think the panel and im going to sit down and be quiet and handed over to my panel and we will start off. Thank you so much, good morning. I think the arctic is a tough place to talk about. The intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways, the arctic is telling us, actually most polar regions are telling us they are under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming 2 to 3 times faster than any
In his first uk interview, her cousin has told us he wants answers. Our mind is telling us the worst. You know, some days i think, hopefully shes 0k, and some days i think, well, how do we know . She could be dead. And, hes 12 years old, hes passionate about shark conservation, and now hes won a mirror animal hero award. I want a future where my kids and grandkids can see white sharks swimming. I want a world where we can live as a society and not have, with all this brexit and rubbish. Iwant to. I want to have a world in which wildlife is treated equally as humans as, thankfully, we are seeing here today. The device we will speak live to finlay. Congratulations. He will talk about the awards and tell us why he called out badge builds by grills for diving with sharks. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Were going to try and bring you some detail about what the pms new brexit plan is this morning let us know what you think of it . Is it a go er . And we ar
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