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Climate Politics & Sustainability Weekly
Collected, organized, and published by Michael Svoboda.
DC Climate, Politics, and Sustainability Weekly
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability, Below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts Included are an advance notice for “A Youth and Climate Justice Convening” on “Africa Rising” in June and listings for 50 separate events around DC and online this week, including two end-of-semester panel discussions at GW. A new report from IRENA provides part of the backstory for the one upside emerging fr
Michael Svoboda
6d7 min read
The DC Climate, Politics & Sustainability Weekly
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability, Below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts. With the passage of World Bank Week, Earth Day and DC Climate Week—kudos again to the organizers!—the pace of events has eased somewhat. The economic and energy impacts closing the Strait of Hormuz dominate the news and commentary, but a pair of climate stories broke through the fog of that war. At the Guardia
Michael Svoboda
Apr 285 min read
DC Climate, Politics, and Sustainability Weekly
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability, Below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts. Dominating the calendar of events, both directly and indirectly, is DC Climate Week , with a roster of over 240 events, from Baltimore, MD, to Arlington, VA. That’s 60% more than last year. And the flagship events— Opening Ceremony , Earth Day Happy Hour , Leadership Forum , and Career Development Day —are all
Michael Svoboda
Apr 208 min read
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability
With apologies once again for the late hour, below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts Included are advance notices for events later this month at GW and the World Bank and a separate notice for a multi-day event at Gallaudet at the end of this week. And for the first time ever, the nine university members of DC CHEERS—American,* Catholic, Gallaudet, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, Howard, T
Michael Svoboda
Apr 77 min read
DC Climate, Politics, & Sustainability Weekly
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability, With apologies for the late hour, below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts Included are advance notices for two events next month at GW and for multi-day events this week at NASEM and world Bank. A good cross-section of DC universities are represented (and highlighted in yellow) in the events list that follows: American, George Washington, Georgetown,
Michael Svoboda
Mar 306 min read
The DC Climate, Politics, and Sustainability Weekly
With apologies for the delay, below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts Included are notices for four multi-day events, including The DC Environmental Film Festival , NASEM’s Space Science Week, and Brookings’ Economic Activity Conference. Among the more than 55 line items that then follow are events at or co-sponsored by American, Catholic, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, and Howard--plus t
Michael Svoboda
Mar 218 min read
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability,
Below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts Included are advance notices for events at Catholic University and George Washington University and for 50 shorter events spread across the city in the week ahead. Among the 50 are events, highlighted in yellow, at Catholic, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, and Howard. The direct and indirect impacts of the US attack on Iran figure prominently in th
Michael Svoboda
Mar 167 min read
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability
Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability, Below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts Advance notices—for events at Catholic and at GW—once again lead the line-up. American, Catholic, and GW are represented in the lists that follow. The climate impacts and fossil fuel consequences (and causes?) of Trump’s attack on Iran already figure in some of this week’s events, commentaries, and podcasts. Fo
Michael Svoboda
Mar 86 min read
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