Environmental Change and Security Program

By Wilson Center Staff Through the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration has launched a new industrial strategy. Today’s episode of New Security Broadcast highlights a fireside cha...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-06-16T07_56_31-07_00

To better understand the complex dynamics of global hunger and the urgent need for more collective action to address this humanitarian crisis, Chase Sova, Senior Director of Public Policy and Res...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-05-01T12_21_27-07_00

Today's geopolitical climate, paired with the accelerating energy transition, means it is more important than ever to coordinate on international infrastructure investments. This episode of the N...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-04-07T07_24_58-07_00

Since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Kostiantyn Krynytskyi, Head of Energy at Ecoaction , and his colleagues, have been tracking the ongoing environmental damage caused by Russia’s agg...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-03-30T14_15_11-07_00

In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, Sarah Barnes, Project Director for the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative Project Director met with Bridget Kelly, Director of Research f...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-03-15T06_40_38-07_00

In today’s episode of the New Security Broadcast, ECSP’s Claire Doyle partnered with Elsa Barron at the Center for Climate and Security for a conversation with two young leaders who are worki...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-03-10T07_12_03-08_00

It is fully within our power to guarantee a healthy ocean and protect it for the future, says Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in today’s episode of the New Security Broadcast....

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2023-02-17T12_18_30-08_00

This week’s episode of the New Security Broadcast explores Invisible Threads: Addressing the Root Causes of Migration from Guatemala by Investing in Women and Girls —a new report from the Pop...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-12-16T09_55_55-08_00

The war in Ukraine is not only displacing millions, straining the economy, and ravaging infrastructure. It’s also creating a mounting health crisis. In this week’s New Security Broadcast, ECS...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-11-18T11_40_50-08_00

“Things that we used to think were 20 or 30 years into the future are in fact happening today…  Climate change is noticeably changing the extent, the severity, and the frequency of these kin...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-11-10T13_22_19-08_00

According to the World Bank, building enough renewable energy infrastructure to keep global warming below 2C will require more than 3 billion tons of minerals . Reducing emissions quickly is cruc...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-11-02T05_47_01-07_00

As the last decade has brought about a dramatic shift in approaches to addressing climate change, water is increasingly at the forefront of the conversations around adaptation and resilience. In ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-10-28T10_57_11-07_00

As the world turns its attention to the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (CoP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, CoP26 President Alok Sharma reflects upon the achievements won thus far in the fight against ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-10-20T09_35_05-07_00

On a recent visit to the Wilson Center , Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari remarked on the historic nature of the monsoon-related floods that have submerged a huge swath of his...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-09-30T07_14_21-07_00

The confluence of climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine have placed enormous stress on food systems across the globe. Food insecurity spiked in 2020 and has stayed high , and the numbe...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-07-29T09_49_56-07_00

Why does climate change lead to especially bad security outcomes in some places but not others? In this week’s New Security Broadcast, Josh Busby, Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Publi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-07-22T09_18_00-07_00

About half the world’s population lives in an area of active or latent conflict. And few corners of the planet are not feeling the effects of climate change. But in this week’s New Security B...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-06-24T05_49_57-07_00

Debates around whether and to what extent international order is changing can be misguided “so long as we are thinking about international order as a single, monolithic thing,” says Jeff Colg...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2022-04-01T11_53_56-07_00

The impacts of COVID-19 have shown policymakers that we need to invest in infrastructure and shore up existing systems to ensure that they can withstand changing conditions over time, says Alice ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-11-12T06_42_09-08_00

“When we started out, people thought it was weird. ‘Why are you integrating people and animals and why are you integrating human health and animal health?’” says Kalema-Zikusoka, founder ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-09-23T14_30_04-07_00

“To inform the most pressing issues of our time, to bring new voices to the policy space, and to help our audience better understand these complex connections and where we can be most effective...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-09-16T12_41_37-07_00

“Many people have watched fights between communities and big corporations around the world. The corporations usually win so those are the Goliath. The Davids usually lose,” says John Cavanagh...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-09-10T10_46_54-07_00

Too often, many in my community are excluded from sexual and reproductive health services, said Ruth Morgan Thomas, co-founder and Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects , ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-07-15T09_54_28-07_00

“The world is still feeling the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic which most likely had its origins in a wild animal,” says John Scanlon AO, Former Secretary-General of CITES (the Conventio...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-07-08T08_00_00-07_00

The decision to have a child usually requires a feeling of stability and confidence in the future, says Natascha Braumann, Director of Global Government and Public Affairs for Fertility at EMD Se...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-06-29T10_30_34-07_00

Bodily autonomy is something almost innate in us, and yet also a Eureka moment for many people, says Dr. Nahid Toubia, Director for the Institute of Reproductive Health and Rights in Sudan on thi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-05-27T06_35_42-07_00

“The more the United States can get itself back on track, the better position it is in to exercise climate leadership,” says Sue Biniaz, a member of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Joh...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-03-19T06_41_13-07_00

“I've been quite impressed by the wide diversity and complexity of young women's and men's engagement for peacebuilding and development often while confronting seemingly insurmountable challeng...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-03-12T08_00_44-08_00

“It's more than just clinical care. It's cultural. It's connection to country. It's connection to land. It's all of those things that are important to the woman and family, kinship, babies,” ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-03-04T11_28_40-08_00

“I think most people will agree today that the development landscape is, well, it’s highly uncertain, it's increasingly complex,” says Steven Gale, Lead of the Futures/Foresight Team at the...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-02-25T13_16_31-08_00

When Navajo Midwife Nicolle Gonzales talks with Native American women about birth, there's a sense something is missing, she said in this week’s Friday Podcast. “But,” she said, “we don�...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-02-18T10_23_30-08_00

“The very first political order in any society is the sexual political order established between men and women,” says Valerie M. Hudson, a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M, in ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2021-01-22T07_08_45-08_00

“After a period of populist nationalism…multilateralism is back, and climate is the multilateral challenge of the moment,” said David Lammy, a member of Parliament for Tottenham in the Unit...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-12-18T10_54_20-08_00

Camille Harris, Registered Māori Midwife, is unapologetic about her decision to study midwifery and practice exclusively with Māori families, in this week’s Friday Podcast. “It was always t...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-12-16T09_43_11-08_00

“We need to give more weight to the voices of people who are most affected by climate change,” says Vanessa Nakate, a prominent Ugandan climate activist, in this week’s Friday Podcast. At t...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-12-10T16_07_52-08_00

In a year that has presented enormous challenges, it is even more gratifying to present evidence that strengthens the importance of midwives as providers of essential sexual and reproductive heal...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-12-10T07_38_40-08_00

“If solar radiation management were done well—that is, the science is right, the engineering is right, and the policy and governance frameworks around all of the stuff work—then solar radia...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-12-03T17_31_21-08_00

If there’s anything about responding to an epidemic, it’s that speed matters, and so does investing in people closest to the problem, said Dr. Raj Panjabi, Assistant Professor of medicine at ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-10-30T10_50_14-07_00

“Vaccine hesitancy is to be expected in a normal circumstance—it’s very different from being what we call ‘anti-vaccine,’” says Dr. Rahul Gupta, Senior Vice President and Chief Medica...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-10-29T13_13_44-07_00

Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, the risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than for white w...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-10-15T13_58_18-07_00

“Unintended pregnancy and abortion are reproductive health experiences shared by tens of millions of people around the world, irrespective of personal status or circumstance. What differs thoug...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-10-08T09_36_02-07_00

“I believe that we're experiencing a national reckoning and in this unique moment, I definitely see an opportunity for Congress, but also for our local governments to enact policies that begin ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-07-30T09_17_06-07_00

“NCDs have raised the risk of and the severity of the COVID-19 infection,” says Dr. Belén Garijo, Executive Board Member and CEO of Healthcare at Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany, in this week�...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-06-11T09_15_41-07_00

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc the world over, and recent data shows that the hardest hit will be the world’s women and girls and populations impacted by racism and discrimination. This week’s Fr...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-05-28T13_39_35-07_00

The year 2020 has been designated as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife by the World Health Organization. In April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), International Council of Nurses, a...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-05-14T09_38_58-07_00

“What are the underlying drivers of risk that created the conditions for Covid-19 to emerge, and how do we better address them?” said Lauren Herzer Risi, Project Director for the Environmenta...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-04-29T09_13_32-07_00

What is inherent in the word “universal,” is that it is for all women, said Anneka Knutsson, Chief of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-04-02T12_48_16-07_00

“Women and men face very different risks and challenges,” said Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and journalist who covers climate change, conflict, and gender. She spoke in this week’s podcast ab...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-03-27T04_53_33-07_00

While there are many uses for global data sets and innovative data analysis technologies, the most important thing, Rodolfo Camacho said in this week’s Water Stories podcast, is not analyzing t...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-02-28T07_43_37-08_00

“This project is serious,” Casimiro Olvida said. “It will help the community. If you do not believe me, you can kill me anytime.” He recalled saying this in 1995 to Communist rebels in Mi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-02-27T13_10_47-08_00

Through open source information, remote sensing, and existing data, we can have a better sense of how conflict impacts the environment and how it then impacts people depending on the environment,...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-02-20T07_33_08-08_00

“I believe if you acknowledge women as primary users of environmental resources, if you draft the policy with women the table, offering you their unique perspective and unique feedback, you’...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-02-13T11_28_17-08_00

The United States and China are on the road to war, said Senior Advisor of New America’s Resource Security Program, Sharon Burke in this week’s Friday Podcast. “And if you’re an environme...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2020-02-06T08_54_25-08_00

“For me, presented itself shortly after the birth of my second son. I had these symptoms; I had this profound fatigue that I didn’t have with my first child,” said Terrie Livingston at a r...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-12-19T17_55_55-08_00

To address the security challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa we need to shift the focus from a concept of state security to one of citizen security, says Ambassador Phillip Carter III (ret.), for...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-12-06T04_23_37-08_00

“If you live in the developed world or in some urban centers, then the supply of water is guaranteed,” said Gordon Mumbo, team leader for Sustainable Water for the Mara River Basin, a project...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-11-14T20_55_57-08_00

The Wilson Center is partnering with the USAID Sustainable Water Partnership and Winrock International to share stories about global water security. The series has highlighted the connections bet...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-09-06T05_31_54-07_00

“Having a planet that is suitable for us has taken a very long time, like four and a half billion years,” said Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, in a pod...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-08-08T10_56_09-07_00

“When you're in a post-conflict phase, it means we really should be moving away from humanitarian assistance into development because we've moved along the conflict spectrum toward peace and de...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-07-31T13_38_46-07_00

“I’ve never seen this kind of political and public sector engagement in an environmental topic happen so fast,” said Rob Kaplan, the Founder and CEO of Circulate Capital in an interview wit...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-06-21T07_56_24-07_00

“When you get to the power of voice, you have to be brave and you have to be that person that will speak up and say this isn’t right, but I want to be a part of the solution,” said Eileen M...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-05-31T05_29_49-07_00

Africa in Transition, a new series hosted by the Wilson Center and the Population Institute, explores the role of population trends—migration, urbanization, fertility, maternal mortality—in s...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-05-24T05_22_42-07_00

Seeing the influx of international aid into Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, Dr. Florence Jean-Louis, Director of Human Development at Fonkoze, asked herself, “How can all this support, all...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-05-17T10_16_07-07_00

“Strengthening community health is critical to expanding voluntary family planning,” said A. Jean Affo, Chief of Party at Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) Benin at a recent Wilson Cente...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-05-17T09_53_50-07_00

The overarching goal of the U.S. Global Water Strategy is to create a more water secure world, said Ambassador Marcia Bernicat, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans, and ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-04-05T05_35_45-07_00

Three big trends are coming, said Ken Conca, Professor at American University’s School for International Service at a recent Wilson Center event that explored the future of water. “We’ll be...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-03-28T14_16_08-07_00

“One of the interesting things about dealing with water and sanitation issues is that in many ways it’s a crosscutting issue,” said Sam Huston, Chief of Party at Tetra Tech’s USAID-suppor...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-02-22T08_03_07-08_00

“The Jordan River has been the lifeblood of the Levant,” says Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. The river’s importance...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-01-30T19_42_25-08_00

“Almost everyone of reproductive age—about 4.3 billion people—will not have access to at least one essential or reproductive health intervention over the course of their lives,” said Patr...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-01-24T09_25_36-08_00

“When we start talking about water in the context of security, we’re immediately drawn to a conversation about conflict. And that’s often framed in terms of scarcity of water and a real zer...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-01-18T10_56_37-08_00

“You cannot separate water and health,” says Doris Kaberia in this week’s Water Stories podcast. “People need safe drinking water for them to be healthy.” Kaberia works with Millennium ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2019-01-10T07_43_29-08_00

We realized “there was a need for a toolkit on water,” says Sandra Ruckstuhl in this week’s Water Stories podcast, “with a focus of conflict and conflict mitigation, but also peacebuildin...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-12-13T13_30_37-08_00

“Countries—even countries that don’t like each other much—have, and continue to have, conversations over water resources, even when they won’t about other issues,” says Aaron Wolf, Di...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-11-30T05_41_01-08_00

“We need to mainstream young people into the decision-making process,” said Senator Nikoli Edwards, age 25, of Trinidad and Tobago at a recent Wilson Center event on engaging youth to protect...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-11-07T13_49_16-08_00

“Even in a weak system without a quality improvement structure, it is possible to support district managers and facility providers to measure and improve quality care,” said Eliane Razafimand...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-10-12T06_12_02-07_00

“A lot of the advocacy of family planning has been built around establishing a long list of the many ways in which family planning can be relevant” to other development goals, says Parfait El...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-08-03T11_57_36-07_00

Healthy Women, Healthy Economies is a global initiative that aims to unleash the “economic power of women by bringing governments, private sector, and other civil sector actors together to impr...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-07-27T11_06_40-07_00

Africare’s work has been built on a “strong belief that community mobilization and local capacity building and innovation are the cornerstones of successful development, and that, for us, inc...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-07-20T08_14_12-07_00

“This is a woman who did exactly what she was supposed to do; she did exactly what we encourage pregnant women to do,” said Amy Dempsey of the Population Council at a recent Wilson Center eve...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-06-15T08_56_25-07_00

“How do our interventions provide an opportunity to really work at some of the core drivers of instability or lack of resilience?” said Larry Cooley from Management Systems International at a...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-06-08T08_54_58-07_00

“Climate is unquestionably linked to armed conflict,” says Halvard Buhaug, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, in the latest Wilson Center podcast. “If we produce a m...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-05-04T11_32_27-07_00

“As many as 865 million of our mothers, daughters, sisters across the globe are not reaching their full potential to contribute to their national economies,” said Dr. Belén Garijo, CEO for ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-04-05T12_09_43-07_00

“We need to think differently about how we invest in our country programs, and what outcomes we are interested in,” said Dr. Koki Agarwal, director of the U.S. Agency for International Develo...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-03-16T08_16_50-07_00

Every day, 7,100 babies are stillborn. A tragic, complicated problem, stillbirth—which the WHO defines as a baby born with no signs of life at or after 28 weeks' gestation—remains difficult t...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-01-12T12_03_47-08_00

“Women still die…and they die preventable deaths,” said Address Malata, vice chancellor of the Malawi University of Science and Technology, at a recent Wilson Center event honoring the 30th...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2018-01-11T14_35_12-08_00

Peter Yeboah, Executive Director, Christian Health Association of Ghana, offers his perspective on faith-based approaches to global health

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-12-14T12_47_49-08_00

Dr. Tonny Tumwesigye, Executive Director, Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau, gives his remarks on faith-based approaches to global health.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-12-14T12_44_55-08_00

As a child growing up in Nepal’s mountainous Upper Mustang region, Ghana Gurung understood that his survival depended on the mountains and his community. Today, as senior conservation program d...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-11-21T16_26_53-08_00

Climate change poses an undeniable threat to small island states, but many islanders do not even know what climate change is, says Camari Koto, an indigenous Fijian academic and educator at the U...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-11-18T06_34_41-08_00

“Innovation happens when there are pioneers that stick with it,” says Monica Kerrigan, vice president of innovations at Jhpiego in a podcast from the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiat...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-10-20T15_28_13-07_00

Maps help us to grasp complex ideas, such as patterns of risk and vulnerability, but the stories they tell can have significant implications. “It’s very difficult to validate that what you’...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-09-29T15_39_05-07_00

“How do we present things in a responsible way?” asks Dr. Doris Chou of the World Health Organization (WHO) during a Wilson Center panel discussion on “Maternal and Women’s Health, Two Ye...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-08-17T13_35_21-07_00

In this podcast postscript, Simon Nicholson goes into detail about the array of climate engineering technologies being researched.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-07-20T14_46_28-07_00

When the Paris Agreement set an ambitious goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the negotiators put climate engineering on the table, sa...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-07-20T14_44_51-07_00

“Water scarcity is a nightmare scenario that is all too real and all but inevitable in Pakistan,” says Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Wilson Center’s Asia Program, in this week’...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-05-25T13_44_39-07_00

The Sahel region of Africa is a wide band that marks the transition from the Sahara Desert in the north to the wetter, sub-tropical regions in the south. The Sahelian countries have some of the m...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-05-18T08_04_56-07_00

Governments and health organizations have made remarkable gains in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity rates around the world. Much of those gains have been driven by increasing capacity, d...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-05-11T11_11_51-07_00

As more and more development and humanitarian programs contend with climate-related problems, there are important lessons learned from past experience that should not be forgotten, says Janani Vi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-04-13T10_52_47-07_00

In a research project spanning more than two dozen case studies on environmental governance in 13 sub-Saharan African countries, Jesse Ribot, professor at the University of Illinois, and colleagu...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-04-06T08_07_03-07_00

“Midwives have the knowledge, midwives have the skills, and have the heart and compassion to serve mothers and babies in the most perfect way,” explains Samara Ferrara in this week’s podcas...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ecsp-wwc/episodes/2017-03-30T12_49_04-07_00