The U7+ Alliance today issued a statement asking G7 leaders to take into account the interests of future generations as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change.The alliance, a group of univers
Northwestern has been elected first Secretariat of the U7+ Alliance of World Universities, the University announced in a Monday release.
The U7 Alliance brings together leaders from top higher education institutions in G7, or “Group of Seven” Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States for multilateral discussion on global issues. The collective then aims to coordinate these solutions with the G7 governments.
Pritzker Prof. Annelise Riles, executive director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, will direct the Secretariat. Riles said members of the alliance can discuss issues like climate change and the ethics of artificial intelligence to the forefront of policy debates.
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The Fukushima accident was the most severe since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
It has been 10 years since a major earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011.
Now, the Japanese town of Namie has been reduced to less than 8% of its original population as residents remain evacuated, said Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida during his address to a global audience of nuclear experts, which was hosted on March 10 by Northwestern University.
From the event, Northwestern Now offers several points of view by experts who explain the inequities faced by the residents of that region and what it looks like today.
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EVANSTON, Ill. The Japanese town of Namie has now been reduced to less than 8% of its original population as residents remain evacuated following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident and have yet to be back, said Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida, during his address on Tuesday to a global audience of nuclear experts, hosted by Northwestern University.
Northwestern professor Hirokazu Miyazaki published a report detailing the failure of various compensation schemes to remedy the plight of those victims. He can be reached by contacting Mohamed Abdelfattah at mohamed@northwestern.edu.
Quote from Professor Miyazaki:
“We’re often inclined to think that nuclear disasters don’t happen very often, but that doesn’t take into view the damaging impact these disasters have in the long run on people, agriculture and anyone in the path of the nuclear fallout, sometimes beyond national borders.”