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Global Scholarship and Public Engagement: Professor Ivanova’s Role(s) in Environmental Governance

The Top 5 Posts of January 2021 The nature of climate risks complicates efforts to pinpoint and articulate climate’s impact on conflict. In January’s top post, Peter Schwartzstein draws on years of environmental reporting across the MENA region to share examples of how environmental and climate changes are driving conflict in areas where the climate angle isn’t immediately obvious.   Speaking of climate and conflict, the recently released Global Fragility Strategy fails to include climate change as a driver of fragility, notes ECSP Director Lauren Risi in the fifth top post. It does, h...

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste? China’s 2018 National Sword Policy ended the country’s role as the recycling bin for the world’s post-consumer plastic scrap and threw global recycling markets into disarray. Reeling on the other side of the globe, American cities were forced to store, incinerate, or throw collected recyclables into landfills. Faced with a rapidly diminishing landfill capacity, China is consolidating and formalizing its domestic recycling industry, an expensive and daunting task. Cities around the world are struggling with the costs and logistics of collecting and so...