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Climate Migration and Displacement: A Look at the Ripple Effect

February 29, 2024
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Sustainability & Economic Analyst at Anam Circle
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The world is witnessing a growing phenomenon with far-reaching consequences: climate migration. As our planet grapples with the effects of climate change, a rising number...

Learning from Pakistan’s Water Scarcity: A Lesson for Sustainable Management

August 9, 2021
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Sustainability & Economic Analyst at Anam Circle
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
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Pakistan, a nation with a rich history and a promising future, finds itself standing at the crossroads of a critical issue: water scarcity. By delving...

The Digital Fair Repair Act: Promoting self-sufficiency, small businesses, and waste avoidance in post-pandemic economy

August 3, 2021
Chris Plummer
Chris Plummer
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It is safe to say that nearly everyone has some type of digital device that helps them connect to the world through the internet. It is...

Why Doughnut Economics could be a better model for local economies

June 16, 2021
Leyah Saju
Leyah Saju
Leyah Saju
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Doughnut Economics is a model to measure progress in an economy by monitoring impacts on the social and planetary boundaries. The Doughnut Economics model is visualized using two concentric circles – the inner circle represents how successfully the economy has fulfilled basic life essentials like water, food, and health, while the outer circle represents how the local economy...

Resilience Science – This changes everything

February 15, 2021
Resilience science is the latest, and greatest in telling us how the social-ecological system (humans in nature) works, and how humans need to operate to be consistent with the...

Canadian Climate Adaptation Fund

February 13, 2021
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Sustainability & Economic Analyst at Anam Circle
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
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Canada has created a large-scale disaster and mitigation fund in order to reduce the financial impacts to local communities from damage caused by climate change. The Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund...

Risk Pools for Climate-Influenced Disasters

January 5, 2021
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
Sustainability & Economic Analyst at Anam Circle
Emanuel Gutman-Gates
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Nineteen African nations have joined together in an effort to prepare for the current and future effects of climate change. They enacted a risk pooling strategy that unlocks funding when climate influenced disasters strike. The member states of...

Electric School Bus Funding: New York Giveth and (Tries to) Taketh

December 31, 2020
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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Funding for electric school buses in New York is on two tracks going in opposite directions. On one hand, the State just announced an additional...