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Breakout group during the 3rd Glasgow Dialogue on climate loss and damage. Here, small island developing states (SIDS) highlighted their unique challenges and called for international support through innovative financing and technical assistance. Photo Credit: Michael Chapman
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June 18, 2024
C-PREE Students Report Back on 2024 Bonn Climate Change Conference
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat hosts two primary meetings each year: the Bonn Climate Change Conference typically held in June, and the Conference of Parties (COP) typically held in November. The Bonn Climate Conference centers around sessions of two permanent subsidiary bodies –…
Breakout group during the 3rd Glasgow Dialogue on climate loss and damage. Here, small island developing states (SIDS) highlighted their unique challenges and called for international support through innovative financing and technical assistance. Photo Credit: Michael Chapman
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June 17, 2024
Research Record: Globalizing Green Industrial Policy Through Technology Transfers
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
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May 01, 2024
Princeton SPIA’s Tessa Desmond Spearheads Effort to Preserve Agricultural Wisdom for Future Generations
Project aims to preserve farming practices of Black and Indigenous people in danger of disappearingOne day last fall in North Carolina, Tessa Lowinske Desmond, a research specialist at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, stood silently alongside a man named Levi Grisset Sr. She held recording equipment and…
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March 15, 2024
Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones Likely to Increase Flood Hazard in North Atlantic as Climate Warms
Many of the most devastating tropical cyclones (TCs) in history, including Hurricanes Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005), underwent a process known as rapid intensification (RI). Defined by a wind speed increase of at least 30 knots (35 mph) within a 24-hour period, RI can be difficult to predict and can leave coastal regions…
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December 21, 2023
For COP28 Delegates, an Invaluable Chance to Observe – and Learn
The SPIA students who served as delegates to the world’s primary multilateral decision-making forum on climate change earlier this month described busy days filled with observations of negotiations, meetings with officials from across the globe, and invaluable networking.The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United…
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December 07, 2023
ESOC Conference Examines Causes and Effects of 1973-74 Oil Embargo
Thirty policy experts and scholars from the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle East met at the SPIA in D.C. space in early November for a conference on the 50th anniversary of OPEC’s 1973-74 oil embargo. The two-day gathering, presented by SPIA’s Empirical Studies of Conflict project, featured discussions and debates…
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December 01, 2023
SPIA Leads Princeton Delegation to U.N. Climate Change Conference
Nearly a dozen faculty, students, and staff from the School of Public and International Affairs are serving as delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which began this week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Known officially as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on…
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October 25, 2023
SPIA Doctoral Student Among Four Chosen for N.J. Wind Institute Fellowship
The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment has selected four graduate students from across Princeton to participate in the 2023-2024 New Jersey Wind Institute Fellowship.The selected fellows will carry out research projects to tackle timely challenges facing the growing offshore wind industry, from characterizing winds…
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October 25, 2023
New Study Identifies Illegal Hunting as a Threat to China’s Wildlife and Global Public Health
Illegal hunting and trading of wildlife in China is becoming a significant threat to biodiversity and public health, according to a new paper by a team of researchers that includes two scholars from the School of Public and International Affairs. It is the first comprehensive assessment of this issue for China. …
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October 06, 2023
Research Reveals Persistent Racial Gap in Americans’ Support of War
When asked in surveys, Black Americans consistently expressed less support for the Iraq War than their white counterparts, even when controlling for demographic variables, according to new research co-authored by Naima Green-Riley, an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at the Princeton School of Public…
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