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Crushing blows to three of the world’s largest oil companies have made it clear that the arguments many have been making for decades have sunk in at the highest levels.
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I’d like to encourage everyone who reads this to please look up on Google or YouTube the 1838 Lyceum Address by Abraham Lincoln. It was written 23 years before the Civil War. Similar to today, tensions were high, and there was much unease.
Lincoln warned the nation of immense harm that would prevail if we “the people” permit it. Very similar to today, mobs were what some thought was an adequate way of change.
Columbia Institute to Be Key Partner in New World Bank-funded Climate Resilience Project
Farmers from southern Mali’s Sikasso region tend to their cowpea crop. Photo: Francesco Fiondella
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Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project will help farmers better anticipate destructive climate-related events and take preventative actions, as well as improve their access to climate advisories and recommendations on effective response measures. The project will work with key regional and national institutions across Africa, but will focus its activities in six countries Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia.
“This funding will support IRI’s groundbreaking work in providing the world’s best climate services,” said Alex Halliday, director of the Earth Institute and founding dean of the Columbia Climate School. “It links climate forecasting, agricultural sciences and economics with critical development efforts across Africa. This
We Must Incorporate Social Justice When Planning for Compound Disasters by Jackie Klopp, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, and Joshua Fisher |May 12, 2021
Compound disasters are situations in which multiple hazards are simultaneously active in the same geographic location or across interconnected regions and populations. Image credits (clockwise from top left): NOAA; Pierre Holtz/UNICEF; International Research Institute for Climate and Society; Vespertunes
As the world faces multiple, concurrent risks a rapidly warming climate, megadroughts in the American West, new variants and new waves of COVID-19 infections in India, Brazil, and elsewhere local communities, policy makers, frontline responders, and researchers all face the rising challenges of compound disasters and complex emergencies. These are situations in which multiple hazards are all simultaneously active in the same geographic location or across interconnected regions and populations. The coincidence and interconn