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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span>I'm here this week participating in the Hague Global Institute for Global Justice's closed workshop on climate change and conflict resolution. Joining me are other researchers, policymakers, and NGOs from around the world to discuss causal relationships, concepts, and the possibility of conducting future research projects on this topic.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span>As the world gets more of a taste of the repercussions from a destabilized climate (think of the extended drought in the United States this year as just one example), a key question is: how do physical changes translate into social, economic, and political changes? Will we see rising competition over scarce resources? Food riots? Displacements from extreme weather and sea-level rise? Adaptive migration? Will this trigger new conflicts, or can we prevent them by increasing resilience and cooperation?</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span>We need to pay more attention to how environmental change plays out in the political world, not just in terms of challenges, but also opportunities. Concerning the latter, I will be in Oslo, Norway, next month attending the conference on The Political Economy of Transitions<span style="letter-spacing: -2px;">----</span>Analysis for Change, organized by the UN Development Programme and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre. I will be participating in a session titled "Green Growth and Sustainability in Countries in Transition," where I will share insights from my chapter in </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; " track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012NxNnZuPrnykGeKTpVV5nQnzsGeDMoFWGGVoVmm-AJUWOHIE0XBt7xEYT55OZXxDVD1L2JSISFu4Z_AjCnnaV25CmiUirLBe9rP_XKR1Tj96Sw-MbOdSCJCpuQus13r81FIEAlApKLUcwmeouGQPsA==" shape="rect" linktype="1" target="_blank">State of the World 2012: Moving Toward a Sustainable Prosperity</a><span>, "</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; " track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012NxNnZuPrnzQ6rKJcPePlPa-hZrGbyJ_gBTouxwmzscUoOuTZxM0QyebpUoCitq_gtFZQQqaX0NBJl8M8jQdt-WnS5oqVSQ_KhNw522OMX8Ch1smtvLYN6zMjITPBXT2OWw4ycApZg0c_Zxcks078dy7peMy1NZ0qd3APqrfPvOINTPffTb6P_fqqNGVo8HthAjL_Y1iCmjPtyeW6Qrgm85R7C-YK35S" shape="rect" linktype="1" target="_blank">Making the Green Economy Work for Everybody</a><span>." </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span>It's indisputable that a green economy must offer adequate numbers of good-quality jobs in order to have traction. At a time when </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; " track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012NxNnZuPrnwpLiZ6vKT4I8ZDXPKp1hBU7CTQuFZgmMJFRIQfTFCf5LoZUFJ0iA0rTUBVxQsik7-Wro5NZBMml-x-Kqs1-ul_4JzGBhVTVk8e_8yDH68RdePzX4-oyj5J_m5HtjBfAjdv9jhO4_vmj6UHQq7-mhQnIsVZVkkGHa8=" shape="rect" linktype="1" target="_blank">the world needs to create 600 million jobs</a> <span>over the next decade, when some 200 million people confront unemployment and many others contend with insecure, dangerous, or low-paid work, it is critical that we create sustainable and fulfilling livelihoods. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on "green and decent jobs," a new line of thinking that emphasizes employment that not only preserves and restores environmental quality, but also offers workers a secure income and a perspective for the future.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span>Figures for the first half of 2012 show a remarkable shift in U.S. energy trends. Coal-fired power generation has plummeted to 20 percent below last year's level and 31 percent below the peak reached in 2007. There are two primary factors behind coal's decline. Electricity use has virtually leveled off in the United States since 2008, leaving many U.S. utilities with excess generating capacity and more latitude to choose which of their power plants will operate. Meanwhile, the rapid decline in U.S. natural gas prices this year has allowed utilities to fire up some of their newer and more efficient gas plants while idling many of their coal plants.</span> </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span>In the last several years, many governments in developing countries around the world have cut federal agricultural investments within the seed sector. As a result, private seed companies promoting hybrid seeds are filling in the gaps. Farmers' groups, however, are doing their own community seed saving so they can achieve greater independence, adapt to climate change, and rise out of poverty.</span> </p>
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