Energy and Environment

Food and Water Security

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    Why It Matters Live Podcast Taping on Food Diplomacy
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    Why Expanded BRICS Is Backing a Russia-Initiated Grain Exchange
    In a move to reshape global agricultural trade, the 2024 BRICS Kazan Declaration has thrown its weight behind the creation of a BRICS Grain Exchange. 
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    Trade-offs in the Desert: RealEcon Visits Arizona
    From semiconductors and water conservation to mining and the clean energy transition, Arizona is balancing trade-offs that will have important lessons for the country.

Experts in this Topic

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Alice C. Hill

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment

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    Accelerating Solutions at the Intersection of Climate Change and Food Security
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    Panelists discuss the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate), a 5-year joint initiative launched in 2021 and co-led by the United States and the United Arab Emirates, and the importance of investing in climate-smart agriculture and food system innovation. For further information, please see www.aimforclimate.org.
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    How U.S. Water Infrastructure Works
    The sprawling U.S. water system is central to the nation’s economy, but chronic underinvestment, increasing demand, and the consequences of climate change have revealed the system’s weaknesses.  
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    Special Event: Dinner of Extinction—A Taste of Climate Action
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    The “Dinner of Extinction” will address the dangers the world faces due to climate change and rapidly deteriorating ecosystems. Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition to President Barack Obama, will open the dinner with an introduction to the courses that will be served, highlighting the importance of the ingredients used. Those ingredients and other resources people rely on and enjoy will be depleted, if not extinct, within the next few decades if human beings do not act effectively and quickly. The dinner program will also include a panel discussion on the future of climate change and what can be done to protect food security and the world’s fragile ecosystems.  Please note the audio, video, and transcript of the discussion portion of this event will be posted on the CFR website. Please note there is no virtual component to this meeting. **Space for this event is limited. Please respond to this invitation at your earliest convenience by clicking the Register or Decline button, responding to this email, or calling the Meetings Response Line at 646.558.8656.