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Adil Najam on Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, contributes a piece on the key takeaways from the Paris Agreement.
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Seven Benchmarks to Build Consensus on a Groundwater Sustainability Agency
In California, CBI has been arms-deep in the creation of groundwater sustainability agencies to face pressing issues of water management. Bartlett contributed a post on building consensus in the creation process.
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The Effects of Climate Change Are All Local: Here's What You Can Do to Help Manage the Risks
For coastal communities already feeling the impacts of climate change, CBI's book shows how climate risk simulations and structured community dialogue can help accelerate the adoption of risk management measures that everyone agrees upon.
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Lessons from a Chilean Forestry Mediation
CBI and a Chilean partner organization jointly mediated a conflict between a major forestry company and a local community. Here is what CBI learned.
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Shrinking Planet: Gender
On its 20th Anniversary, CBI emphasizes that finding solutions to the pressing dilemmas the world faces will require a consistent effort to engage more women in decision-making processes across all sectors.
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Shrinking Planet: Energy
On its 20th Anniversary, CBI calls for stakeholders to step up their efforts in collaborative dialogue and consensus building to resolve energy debates around the world.
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Shrinking Planet: Food
On its 20th Anniversary, CBI explores how collaborative dialogue and effort has helped engineer integrated, broad-scale responses to the complex challenges of global strategies for food.
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Shrinking Planet: Water
On its 20th Anniversary, CBI highlights how effective collaboration and conflict resolution can lead to better management of water sources for a diverse range of purposes and users.
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Shrinking Planet: Technology's Role
On its 20th Anniversary, CBI asks where and how new and emerging technologies can change the way we approach collaborative dialogue, information sharing, and consensus building.
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'Devising' A Better Way Forward
A “Devising Seminar” can help parties in conflict imagine (or devise) a set of alternatives or options that could help address complex situations with multi-sectoral interests.
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When a Client Says “No” to A Good Process
What happens when clients say “no” to a process proposal that follows best practices? Are there strategies that can be employed to help them see the value in different approaches? CBI outlines guidance for addressing these situations.
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Facilitating Wind Energy Siting
This three-day workshop focuses on developing the capacity to collaborate effectively on wind development policy, facility siting, and related issues, including visual impacts, noise, credible data, local benefits, and more.
