Transcripts For CSPAN2 Discussion On Climate Change And The

CSPAN2 Discussion On Climate Change And The Zika Virus May 19, 2016

Accused of being very corrupt and costing a lot of grievances that he was unable to control the borders and theres a lot of illicit act dividend 30 take place in northern mali prior to the attacks by the terrorists attacked that peaked in 2012. On the other hand, the neighboring country to mali, which then shares a direct order with libya because the government have better control of the borders, because the government has come out with a policy in the processes. And allowing people at the level that impact lives directly. Is nothing but a worthy country that it is surviving in a neighborhood invested by terrorists on the northern border with libya, with northern mali and the southern border with northeastern nigeria. It is not necessarily better able to manage its Human Capital they can respond to needs in remittances in the country still doing well today. Thank you. We are way beyond time. We had a really started harrowing than the peacekeepers. And the abuses that are taking place. Id like to ask and closing when this is happening, what does that do relative to populations in their feeling amount to, you know, people working with them to keep peace, but also if it does, how does that feel additional attraction to terrorist groups. But its tolerable enough or it happened and puts its credit and you have saved the secretary general condemning it strongly. He condemns that, but it still happens and we see almost no action. Condemning that doesnt mean anything. He has condemned it when it happened. We have dismissed the head of the mission. We have named the countries that the perpetrators are coming. They go to jail. Whos going to jail. The secretarygeneral has named those countries that have done it. It behooves the countries. You understand from my perspective that would be like naming the terrorists the bad guy is doing nothing about it. The secretarygeneral has also nominated the official court nader from the u. S. To coordinate the efforts of the u. N. By this despicable, underlying happen. Prosecutions are well thought and that, not naming people, not naming countries. Mr. Chair come mr. Chair, you would know that the u. N. Has nospace for soldiers giving contributing countries. If you use both countries to do the prosecution went they are named. I want to just join with the chairman. I am not satisfied that the United Nations has done everything it needs to do. I understand you dont have independent ability to do that. I understand you have the politics of dealing with member states. But with the peacekeepers, it was very, very late in the game and the action was not adequate and we know that secretarygeneral is very since the year. We know the Security Council is taking action, but we have not seen what we expect. But this is true with the various programs under the United Nations, the Development Programs are we importing. But if you are not prepared to break your partnership with a corrupt regime, then i think you are doing a disservice. I understand the humanitarian needs. I understand dealing with particularly ngo types of direct humanitarian service. Contracts need to be prepared to walk away. So just one quick question to mr. Fomunyoh. What would you like the night dates due to respond to the perception of the perception that they give free passes to Coalition Partners in regards to human rights violations. Is there something specific you would like to see us do . Seminar company touched on the issues. I think speaking out more publicly against some of the violations, but also taking action that can assure or reassure and when the United States is democracy and the pillars of the policy that really means it. Even at the highest level on the mind and everything else. The Additional Resources for dave and Good Governance programs and also a sense that the program to be a fact is because youre talking about changing attitudes and behaviors in dealing with people who back did one way for decades and would now need to act differently. A sustained support is more likely to pay dividends and shortterm surgical type interventions because you need time to be able to create relationships of trust. You need time for people to entrust picture Technical Assistant in terms of raising the wellbeing of citizens and putting in place processes that can into your beyond one government or one later and that requires time and sustained resources. That will go a long way because fortunately, for the three decade that can be im institute and other organizations have been doing this kind of work, with established relation ships in the country that could have a huge impact of the resources were available. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Dieye. I know you are speaking up regarding the u. N. It is not shared areas of expertise. I think you can understand where none of us on the panel are particularly field but the way you handled peacekeeping issues and prosecute it caused to take place. Then they just close with this. Certainly this hearing has given us a good sense of the complexities that exist. We have similar complexities in the middle east where we are dealing with countries that, you know, be it the fact you, discriminate against various fact that are not of their own. This is the challenge throughout the world dealing with issues like this. Are we thank you for your focus today on africa as you mentioned the last panel, third base of members and writing. We will close that as 30 afternoon. If you could respond briefly, we thank you their expertise and knowledge and willingness to share with us today. With that, the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. 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The center for Disease Control and prevention top about the link between Climate Change and the zika barry affecting parts of that america appeared Princeton University released a report on the topic of this is 90 minute. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] name is ron haskins. Im codirect their Forest Center on children and family. We are especially into issues of economic mobility. Along with my cspan colleagues, im also an editor of the future children, which we publish twice a year with colleagues from princeton. Sarah mcclanahan is the editor in chief and the managing editor Jonathan Wallace is here. Thank you for coming. You are primarily keeping an eye on us i think. Whenever weve released a volume, which we do twice a year, we read 3000 were policy brief about some issue covered in the volume that we try to take an issue in public policy. We have a public event approaching and announced the release of the volume and go over the volume is so forth. Thats our purpose. Thank you for coming. Heres the plan we will follow for the event today. First after janet curry, one of the senior editors of the journal and also one of the two editors of this volume. Shes also been repugnant professor of economics and Public Affairs and director of the center for health and wellbeing. Im not sure she sleeps, but she does all that stuff. And then were all going to sit down and be joined on a panel to will have a panel of four people discuss the issues that come up and then we will give each of you a chance to ask questions of the panel and alan barreca is here from tulane who also participate in the Panel Discussion. So thats our plan. I hope you like it. Lets have a good time. Janet . Thank you very much, ron. So this volume starting point is the idea that the debate about Climate Change is often framed around a facts on our children, but we are not generally specific about what those effects might be. So the aim of this volume is really to get more specific about what the effects of Climate Change are likely to be on children. So theres for broad themes that come out of the various chapters. One important theme is this is no longer something which we are speculating about. This is something thats already happening and will continue to happen. And it is going and is already affecting Childrens Health and well being. Children are likely for various reasons to bear a disproportionate share of the brunt of Climate Change. Poor children, children in developing countries, and a special children in countries that dont have very strong institutions are particularly at risk. And although we know this is already happening and will continue to happen, we still have a lot of uncertainty about exactly how bad its going to be. That depends in part on what we do, and the fact that it is some certainty and also the costs and benefits are in the future, and also that theyre going to be very unevenly distributed i think make the politics surrounding Climate Change particularly difficult. So im going to start off just with this article, which many of you may have seen. It appeared in the New York Times yesterday, and i saw, it was perfect for this presentation because it hits all the things that i just talked about, Climate Change is already happening. That you can see here in the United States, we had our first climate refugees who are being moved off which has lost 90 of its land mass, and most of its trees because of salt coming up through the water table. And so 48 million has been allocated to move people off of the island to different locations. You can see literally the poster child of the article is a three Year Old Girl whose family is going to have to move. This is a poor community. Its a native american community, illustrating again its the poor who are most likely to suffer. And then on the political front even the sort of relatively small and well defined thing but taking people who are on a sinking island and then somewhere else is still kind of a heavy lift and fraught with various difficulties that are discussed further in a newspaper article. So in terms of what this volume covers, we start by talking about the science of Climate Change, what is known, what is not known. Having set the stage we then focus on temperature extremes, which are one of the most obvious implications of Climate Change. Children are particularly vulnerable to Health Effects of High Temperature which is one of the many ways in which Climate Change affects children. We talk about Climate Change in conflict. Theres a growing body of evidence that High Temperatures are related to conflict, in part because they can have severe economic effects. So in parts of the world that are prone to conflict anyway, if you do think that threatened farmers livelihoods, that makes it more likely that there will be armed conflict. We discussed natural disasters and the effects on children. Again, thats one of the things thats expected to become more common to do Climate Change. We talk about pollution and Climate Change, which i will go into a little bit more detail about in a minute. Climate change in developing countries which is a particular problem, and then we talk, and to love it more technical chapter but just not how do we measure the cost and benefits of Climate Change . A lot of the standards what economists think about things are quite difficult to apply when you have something that is going to take place a long time in the future, and also where there is substantial uncertainty. And that i think bedevils efforts to talk about this in a really rational way. And then finally we come back to the political problem, that its so difficult to mobilize efforts to combat Climate Change. So looking at temperature, this figure which is from the chapter on temperature shows the number of days over 90 degrees that are already expected in four u. S. Cities. The white bar is for 20012010, so thats already happened. Then the next bar is 20462055. And the black bar is the end of the century, 20902099. So what you can see, this is going to get even hotter in houston although its pretty hot in houston already in the summer. So maybe arguably people in houston are used to dealing with that. If you look at kansas city and new york, but to middlesex, the two in the middle, you increased hot day. In new york because some 10 days in the summer to 70 days in the summer by the end of the century. So thats a big change. And then seattle comes off relatively easily with increased only 20 days of really hot weather. So this is just illustrating how the cost of Climate Change even within the u. S. Are going to be an equally distributed across regions. Now, some of the things that we could do about Climate Change in the short term which will also have some benefits in the short term are reducing pollution by, for example, switching more to renewables from fossil fuels. So this table here which is based on the projection made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, its the projection for those of you follow these things, is based on the idea we use more renewable trick and if you just look at the far right column of the table, theres an estimate of how much the switch to renewables would reduce infant mortality by reducing particulate matter. So this would be a benefit of something that would affect Climate Change in the longer run but would have a shortterm effect on pollution. You can see these benefits are also an evenly distributed. So when the southeast you would get almost a 20 increase, or decrease in infant mortality. In the northeast you would also have a fairly large decrease. In the west not so much. So again this figure is just summarizing whats in that column showing the decreases in infant mortality that are projected by region, compared to doing nothing, which is a light gray bar. Similarly, infant mortality is very important that one reason why its important is because its a more general marker for child health. So the same things that reduce infant mortality are expected to improve Peoples Health and the longerterm. Healthier people will have higher earnings, and so this projection is suggesting that earnings would also increase in the same places that have the biggest decreases in infant mortality. Now, moving a little bit from the u. S. To the rest of the world, this figure is just showing particulates for one u. S. City, pittsburgh, where we have data over long period of time, and we all know the air used to be really bad in pittsburgh that it has really improved over time. And showing by way of comparison numbers for the same particular matter, aleutian for mexico and for china. So what you can see is that things have also been improving in china actually but a start at a much higher level so people being exposed to really bad air. And so again anything that affects pollution and also affects Climate Change would be a winwin and that it would have both short run and long run effects on Peoples Health. Staying with the developing countries, area, mr. Chancellor about the research on conflict. This map is showing the horn of africa which is a place that has a lot of conflict. And on the left what you see is a map showing how much change in temperature theres been since 19912005, 2000. You can see even within a relatively small area theres some places are having much more temperature change and other places. And then using that kind of variation the authors of this study, which is summarized in the chapter on conflict, shows that you would expect to have both a short run and a longterm increase in conflict as the result of the temperature change. Turning again, this is kind of a rapid walk through the volume, but turning to the chapter on costs and benefits. This table illustrates one of the problems. And so what its actually showing is the solid line being a projection of Economic Growth. Not paying any attention to Climate Change. So standard economic models that forecast Economic Growth dont you should take Climate Change into effect. So we think that growth continues, and so in the future we should all be richer. Now, the dashed line issue of what happens if you have catastrophic Climate Change. I do think the interesting thing about the dashed line is that nothing happens immediately. Its happening at the end of the century, and then you have a decline in real consumption compared to business as usual. So this is one of the things

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