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EWI's Seventh Annual Worldwide Security Conference

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EWI's Seventh Annual Worldwide Security Conference

Leaders from governments and businesses, including Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and Peter Albatef, President of Dell Services, came together on February 18, 2010 to devise strategies to address the world's most pressing security concerns.

Climate Change and Recession: A Global Lens

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Climate Change and Recession: A Global Lens

The Global Leadership Consortium offers recommendations on confronting climate change, the financial crisis and their impact on global and regional security.

Needed: A Dramatic Increase in Systemic International Cooperation

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Needed: A Dramatic Increase in Systemic International Cooperation

Eduardo Viola argues that despite the financial crisis, the international community must continue to address climate change by propelling four driving forces: energy efficiency, low-carbon technologies, reduction of carbon-intensive consumption and a halt to deforestation.

Climate Change and the Financial Crisis

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Climate Change and the Financial Crisis

Even with the current financial crisis, now is not the time to put off efforts to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. The time frames at stake are different. The effects of the global economic downturn are short-term; the effects of climate change are not.

Commentary

Africa, the Global Recession and Climate Change

Kwaku Asante-Darko writes that the global financial crisis is temporary, raising the genuine concern that its concomitant ecological good is not sustainable, and could well disappear when the global economy recovers.

The Financial Crisis and Climate Change – Greening the Economic Stimulus

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The Financial Crisis and Climate Change – Greening the Economic Stimulus

The projected impacts of climate change, including its potential to multiply threats to other critical issues such as biodiversity and food security, necessitate concrete action at all levels of policy and economic activity.

The Hidden Link Between the Financial Crisis and Climate Change

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The Hidden Link Between the Financial Crisis and Climate Change

One does not have to be a pessimist to say that the world is heading towards an apocalypse. Nor does one need to be an optimist to say that both the economic collapse and the climate catastrophe can be avoided.

Building a Strategic Partnership Between China and the U.S.

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Building a Strategic Partnership Between China and the U.S.

From June 8 to 12, 2009, EWI President and CEO John Edwin Mroz led an American delegation to Beijing for EWI’s third U.S.-China High Level Security Dialogue, an annual event co-sponsored by the China Institute of International Studies.

Frustration and Civil Unrest: The Financial Crisis in Asia

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Frustration and Civil Unrest: The Financial Crisis in Asia

Lizza Bornay-Bomassi analyzes the implications of the global financial crisis on security in Asia and recommends measures to prevent worst-case scenarios.

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