Aside from major sporting events, there have been a few items of import in the news.
Health
- A new polio outbreak in Syria is endangering the drive for global eradication
Climate Change
- A 2012 story that I missed, a drive to replace dirty cook stoves in India using experimental methods failed
- India not keen on addressing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — a short-lived greenhouse gas — through the Montreal Protocol
- Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia join forces on regional greenhouse gas reduction scheme and coordinated carbon prices
Africa
- A drone strike kills an al Shabaab leader
- The U.S. increases manhunt for Joseph Kony
Fishing
- European Parliament rejects new subsidies for fishing fleets
Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.
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