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Webinar - Energy Justice and Solving Cl...
We live today in an uneven world, defined significantly by energy injustice. Moving from here to the Paris climate goals will require a ten-year, global transition towards clean energy. How can we create a just energy system in the transition? Join the Security and Sustainability Forum and Bard College in a sixty-minute session about how innovative city and state policy will be critical to ensure justice in the economic transformation needed...
January 29, 2020
Organizer: SSF
Location: Webcast
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60 minutes with Joseph Fiksel – Enterpr...
World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Global Risks Report” identifies and analyzes a broad range of risk factors that may impact global economic development, ranging from climate change to technological failures to political unrest. Any of these risks alone would be challenging to cope with, but when they occur simultaneously and interact with one another the challenges can seem overwhelming. In a highly networked world risk managem...
January 21, 2020
Organizer: SSF
Location: Webcast
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How do Policy-Makers Access and Use Evi...
Science is foundational to life and the planet as we know it. Policymakers understand this, as do scientists. However the boundary-spanning between policymakers and scientists does not come naturally. Given the current vulnerabilities faced by places, people, ecosystems, and markets, it is essential to create more opportunities for policymakers and scientists to work effectively together. The dynamic tension created by the “pull” o...
November 13, 2019
Organizer: SSF
Location: Webcast
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How Big Data Can Quantify Community Soc...
Currently, community risks consider only a few parameters such as extreme weather, employment rates and business outlooks. The current practice is a singular standard ESG score for a country or region, ignoring significant sub-national spatial differences or differential importance of ESG factors in estimating the risk profile. The result are general assessments that lack the precision of more granular/investment-grade analyses. But, the world...
October 16, 2019
Organizer: SSF
Location: Webcast
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WEBINAR : 1st Century Global Politics o...
Webinar Previews the George Washington University’s Geopolitics of Energy Course Designed for mid-level professionals, the webinar previews a new one-day onsite class exploring the little understood but compelling world of what may be the most powerful force that operates around the globe, now and for the foreseeable future: Energy and Geopolitics. International energy markets are dynamic and entwined with foreign affairs, historically c...
June 13, 2019
Organizer: Security and Sustainability Forum (SSF)
Location: Webcast
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