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114 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger? Part 1
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113 | The Future of Environmental Finance: Strategies for Biodiversity and Climate Solutions, with David Hill and George Kelly
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112 | Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment
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111 | The False Dichotomy Between Reductions and Removals (Rerun)
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110| Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, and the Limits to Growth
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109 | How Brazil's Quilombola Communities are Planting the Seeds of Sustainability for Small Farms Around the World, with Vasco van Roosmalen of ReSeed
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108 | The Washington Post’s Head Scratcher of a Carbon Story
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107 | Francis Bacon and the Prehistory of Climate Finance. Second in an intermittent series on the Untold Story of the Voluntary Carbon Market
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106 | Steve Discusses the "Tribes of the Climate Realm" on the Smarter Markets Podcast
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105 | The Role of Carbon Credits in Conservation: A Case Study from Guatemala
057 | COVID-19 and the Value of Resilience over Efficiency
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When US President Donald Trump disbanded his country’s pandemic response team, he did so because “I don’t like having thousands of people around when we don’t need them.”
That cost-cutting measure could cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and it’s a classic example of what happens when we value efficiency over resilience.
What are efficiency and resilience?
Today we draw on the work of Cardiff University Lecturer Paul Nieuwenhuis to find out.
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