The need to pivot away from fossil-fuel use rapidly is a common concern. But every technological transition is enabled and inhibited by its social and physical environments. I’m interested in small changes that add up, especially the choices that power homes and rely on the behavior of millions of people. How quickly can those…
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The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) focuses on strengthening access to justice for all women and girls. This priority theme presents a critical opportunity to examine how systemic discrimination and institutionalised impunity deny women not only their fundamental rights, but also meaningful access…
United Nations Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017.
The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) is guided by the priority theme of ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including through inclusive and equitable legal systems, the elimination of discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and the removal of structural…
How frontline communities are organizing and building power as environmental protections are rolled back.Arif Ullah is Executive Director of A2 (Anthropocene Alliance), a national coalition of frontline groups advocating for environmental health and protection. He is a social and environmental justice advocate, grassroots urban…
The UN Security Council’s 1267/1988 Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has, for more than twenty-five years, played a central role in supporting the Council’s counter-terrorism sanctions regimes related to Al-Qaida, ISIL/Da’esh, and the Taliban. Mandated to monitor compliance with sanctions measures, including…
The Student Affiliates of the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Public Policy & Behavioral Science welcome University of Chicago behavioral economist Alex Imas for a conversation about his book with nobel laureate Richard Thaler, The Winner's Curse. All undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows, are…
Noah Zucker is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in international and comparative political economy. He studies the political economy of climate change, with associated interests in bureaucracy, finance, identity, and labor. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political…
