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GRID3 Project Aims to Put Everyone on the Map
Detailed population data from the project is helping to protect against disease and plan for new schools in low- and middle-income countries. It may also enhance food security and disaster response.
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Apply Now for Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment’s annual training session will be held in June 2020.
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Uma Óptica de Género É Essencial Para Sustentar a Paz: Evidências de Moçambique
Um novo relatório revela a importância de um entendimento amplo de ‘paz e segurança’ para explicar a insegurança enfrentada por mulheres e raparigas moçambicanas em suas vidas quotidianas.
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A Gender Lens is Essential to Sustaining Peace: Evidence from Mozambique
A new report reveals the importance of a broad understanding of “peace and security” to account for the challenges Mozambican women and girls face every day.
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Assessing Landslide Risk in Rohingya Refugee Camps
NASA and Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society partner with humanitarian organizations to provide near real-time data on land use, rainfall and elevation.
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Brighton Kaoma: Empowering Communities for Climate Action Since Age 14
As a teenage radio journalist in Zambia, Kaoma helped communities voice their environmental concerns. Now he’s a graduate student in Environmental Science and Policy.
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Apply Now for the Peace and Social Change Fellowship
The fellowship supports women grassroots activists working to promote peace and security. The deadline for applications is October 23.
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Climate Change and Economic Consumption
Climate change requires nothing less than transforming the nature of economic production and consumption: Not to consume less, but to consume without destroying the planet that sustains us.
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Testing Fluoride Levels in Indian Wells
A team of researchers taught social science students to test for high fluoride levels in their own villages, and experimented with creative ways to get the word out about the dangers of fluorosis.
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
