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Alice Hill | Building climate resilience
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40 minutes
Released:
Jul 29, 2021
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In this episode, we speak with Alice Hill, senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of the upcoming book, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19. As a former federal prosecutor, judge, special assistant to President Barack Obama, and senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council, Alice has a unique and powerful perspective on the risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change. In conversation with Gil and Hilary, she discusses her journey in becoming an expert on catastrophic risk and climate resilience, which countries are doing well on climate adaptation, and where the U.S. government is falling short. Additionally, Alice talks about what the pandemic can teach us about fighting climate change, how the democratization of data could improve climate security for the world’s most vulnerable populations, how she finds joy in her work, and more. Episode recorded July 13, 2021 Links: Alice Hill on TwitterOpEd: Climate adaptation: The gaping hole in American environmental policy (Alice Hill and Chris Field, The Hill, April 15, 2021)Article: COVID’s lesson for climate research: go local (Alice C. Hill, Nature, June 29, 2021)Book: The Fight for Climate after COVID-19” (Alice C. Hill, released August 4, 2021)Book: Building a Resilient Tomorrow (Alice C. Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, 2019) Show contributors: Gil Jenkins, Hilary Langer, Alice Hill
Released:
Jul 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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